Accelerate Your Development and CI/CD Pipelines with Dagger

In this workshop, we'll explore how Dagger can:

  • Eliminate Environment Discrepancies: Use containerization to ensure your development and CI environments are identical.
  • Simplify Onboarding: Create self-contained environments that new team members can spin up instantly.
  • Streamline CI/CD Pipelines: Define complex pipelines with code-first configuration, reducing failures due to environment differences.
  • Enhance Productivity: Focus on coding rather than environment setup and debugging.

Through a hands-on session, we'll port an existing development and CI setup to Dagger using a realistic example project. You'll gain practical experience in:

  • Writing Dagger pipelines using Go
  • Orchestrating builds, tests, and deployments in a consistent environment
  • Integrating Dagger into existing workflows

By the end of this workshop, you'll be equipped to leverage Dagger to standardize environments, accelerate your CI/CD pipelines, and improve team collaboration.

⚠️ Please note: This workshop will primarily use Go for the coding exercises.

Some familiarity with the language is recommended.

Preparations

⚠️ Please read the following section carefully.

This workshop is offered in a hybrid format, giving you two ways to complete the exercises:

  1. Use your own computer:
    • Ensure your machine can run Docker and any other required tools.
    • Be aware that your organization may restrict installing or running these tools.
  2. Use the online playground environment:
    • You’ll work directly in your browser (no need to install anything).
    • A strong internet connection is essential; spotty Wi-Fi may cause issues.

You are free to choose either option.

Prerequisites for using your own machine
  • Make sure Docker is installed and running.
  • Make sure Go is installed.
  • Install the latest Dagger CLI.
  • Make sure you have a GitHub account set up with SSH keys.
  • Last, but not least: you'll need your favorite text editor or IDE.

Online Playground

During the live training phase, participants can use this playground environment.

⚠️ Stopping a playground will erase all progress. To keep your files, download them before shutting it down.

Workshop materials

You can find the workshop materials on GitHub:

github.com/sagikazarmark/workshop-cnd-romania-2025

Discussion:  Discord
Categories: CI/CD
Tags:  #dagger #ci-pipeline #devops

How to Author Trainings on iximiuz Labs

Instead of providing a subpar online editing experience, iximiuz Labs offers a helper CLI tool called labctl, allowing you to use your favorite text editor (or a full-featured IDE) to write content from the comfort of your local machine.

Install labctl CLI

curl -sf https://labs.iximiuz.com/cli/install.sh | sh

This will download and install the latest version of the labctl CLI. You only need to do this once per workstation.

Authorize labctl

labctl auth login

This will open a browser window asking you to authorize labctl to access your account. You need to do it after a fresh install of labctl and repeat it whenever the auth session expires.

Pull training content

labctl content pull training 2025-05-05-cnd-romania-dagger-workshop-0b26690c

This will create a local copy of the training content in a directory named 2025-05-05-cnd-romania-dagger-workshop-0b26690c. You only need to do this once per training.

Stream your changes

labctl content push -fw training 2025-05-05-cnd-romania-dagger-workshop-0b26690c

Run this command in a separate terminal to continuously upload your changes to the server while editing the training in your favorite text editor or IDE.

You can also use labctl to create, list, and delete your content. Learn more about the available commands: labctl content --help

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