To build, test, and publish a Spring application with Dagger, one can create a pipeline using Dagger SDKs available for Go, Node.js, and Python, regardless of the programming language used. A pipeline can be created to build the application with all required dependencies, run unit tests, publish the final application image to Docker Hub, and run the pipeline on local host or every repository commit using GitHub Actions. Guides are also available for creating and using Dagger pipelines for PHP, Rust, Go, Node.js, or Python applications.