Dagger Has a Free CI/CD Engine — Write Pipelines in Code, Not YAML

Dagger lets you write CI/CD pipelines in real programming languages instead of YAML. What You Get for Free Pipelines as code — write in Go, Python, TypeScript, or any language Runs anywhere — local machine, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins Container-native — every step runs in a container, fully reproducible Caching — automatic layer caching, 10x faster than traditional CI Interactive debugging — dagger call --interactive drops into a shell Dagger Cloud — free tier with pipeline visualization and caching Quick Start # Install curl -fsSL https://dl.dagger.io/dagger/install.sh | sh # Initialize a module dagger init --sdk = python # Write your pipeline in Python instead of YAML # dagger/src/main.py: import dagger @dagger.function async def build ( src: dagger.Directory ) -> dagger.Container: return ( dagger.container () .from_ ( "node:20" ) .with_directory ( "/app" , src ) .with_workdir ( "/app" ) .with_exec ([ "npm" , "install" ]) .with_exec ([ "npm" , "test" ]) ) # Run local