capi-dagger-ci

• Dagger 101
  • A way of writing CI CD in any supported language - python, go, CUE
  • Portable CI - write once run anywhere
  • No CI vendor lockin
  • Full power of programming language
  • Simple deps - Docker + Dagger CLI = profit!
• For demo
  • Build a VPC + DOKS cluster with Terraform
  • Fetch kubeconfig with doctl
  • Install and configure cluster API
  • Dagger will be the glue and orchestration
• Deploy using
  • source secrets.env && make deploy-infra
  • source secrets.env && make install-capi
• Other commands
  • make destroy-infra
  • make deploy-plan / destroy-plan
• While deploying
  • Dagger is made up of modules and functions - dagger functions
  • Modules are collections of functions which represent CI tasks
  • Functions can be chained into each other and reused in a pipeline passing context along chain - with-docreds
  • Secrets can be injected - dagger automatically scrubs them from logs env:xxx markers