March 2024 Summaries

The Dagger Project has reached 10,000 stars on GitHub, thanks to its strong and supportive community. The team was initially focused on helping users overcome the CUE learning curve and adopt Dagger, but after receiving feedback from the community, they expanded beyond CUE to make Dagger a truly multi-language product. This led to accelerated community growth and the ability to connect with more users about their specific use cases. The community has also hosted bi-weekly calls where users share what they're working on with Dagger, and the team has highlighted pioneering "Daggernauts" who have successfully adopted the project in production. Recent launches include making Dagger Cloud pricing more accessible for individual contributors, introducing functions, and launching the Daggerverse, all of which were made possible by community feedback and open communication. The team looks forward to announcing many more community activities soon and thanks everyone who has helped reach this milestone.

The Daggerverse is a searchable index of Dagger Functions that has already been populated with thousands of functions and modules developed by Daggernauts worldwide. It offers various examples, including linting a Python project with Ruff, playing YAML invaders, scanning for vulnerabilities in containers, integrating with Docker registries, and building developer platforms using unfamiliar technologies like Golang. The platform aims to provide a great developer experience through easy-to-use functions that expose ideal APIs with sane defaults, making it easier to work with new toolchains and technologies without requiring extensive knowledge or "glue" code.

The Daggerverse is a searchable index of all public Dagger Functions, which are powerful custom code extensions for the Dagger API. Introduced two weeks ago, Dagger Functions allow developers to encapsulate their code into software components that can be loaded and called by other functions, enabling cross-language composition and containerization. This creates an exciting possibility for a unified software ecosystem in the devops community. The Daggerverse provides a searchable index of these modules, allowing users to discover, learn, and start using them easily. Publishing to the Daggerverse is straightforward, requiring only pushing source code to a public git repository, tagging with semver-compliant version tags, and submitting the module URL.

The Dagger team is excited to join the KubeCon EU 2024 event in Paris, where they will host various Dagger-related events, including a meetup, AppDeveloperCon, and a Dagger keynote. The week-long event promises to be packed with coding sessions, lightning talks, and demos of Dagger Functions and modules. Attendees can expect to learn about building their own Dagger modules, attend AI demos, and mingle with fellow Daggernauts. Register for the events in advance to secure spots.