Dagger Shell

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An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD.

A new shell for the container era

About

• The Unix shell has been in use for more than 50 years and has been a powerful computing tool that lets you compose complex behavior from simple commands
  • But modern software stacks have become far more complex, and traditional shells struggle to handle all of this work
  • Inspired by Docker, make, powershell, nix, and others, a need arose for a modern shell with built-in support for containers, secrets, service endpoints, declarative execution, caching, sandboxing, and more
• Dagger Shell is a bash-syntax-based frontend for the Dagger Engine, usable for all kinds of automation tasks such as builds, tests, deployments, and ephemeral environments
• A tool that complements the system shell rather than replacing it, helping you compose complex workflows from simple modules

See also

• Shell

Favorite site

• Dagger.io
• Github - dagger/dagger
• Dagger Shell - A new shell for the container era | GeekNews