Dagger is a portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines, developed by the creators of Docker. It enables DevOps engineers to build and run powerful pipelines anywhere by providing a composable, reusable software components system. Powered by Buildkit, Dagger aims to solve the fragmentation problem in DevOps by unifying development and CI environments, facilitating local testing and debugging, and avoiding CI lock-in. Dagger runs on any Docker-compatible runtime, solving dev/CI drift and CI lock-in, and it's in early stages of development with active community participation encouraged.
This blog post compares Ansible and Terraform, two popular tools in the DevOps world, and discusses how they can be used together for a more efficient and comprehensive approach to infrastructure management. It also includes a video walk-through and requirements for a demo example where Terraform and Ansible are combined to create an AWS EC2 instance and deploy a Docker engine on it with Ansible, followed by launching a Jenkins container.
