Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
by verdverm on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:29PM
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The language is CUE, which I think will see mass adoption in config / DevOps in the coming years. So regardless what you think of the language today, it is likely to become important and part of your like in the not too distant future.
https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com
Dagger builds on top of CUE and the (DAG) flow engine therein
Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
by dijksterhuis on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:04PM
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Oh wow, the validating yaml example on the front page looks super useful. Might try and play with this over the next few weeks!
Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
by verdverm on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:46PM
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Once CUE clicked for me, there was no going back
Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
by xrd on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:44PM
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That's great context. That should be added to that doc link right at the top, it would have me feel much more safe about investing the time to learn it!
Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
by verdverm on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:45PM
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CUE has good pedigree, the creator Marcel wrote the prototype for Borg (k8s), worked on both Google config languages, and worked on the Go team. CUE is how he thinks those Google config languages should have been designed.
It isn't hard to find, but my point was that if you say "using an intuitive declarative language" then a developer will get excited by a code snippet that shows that intuitive developer language. It wasn't there, and I think their post could be improved by having less fluffy language and more code, if they are targeting me, that is.
This link does show the code, but it took a few clicks to get there from your links:
https://docs.dagger.io/1202/plan
At first glance I'm not in love with the language. When I look at the first example, there is a lot I have questions about.