Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
I've long wished to be just writing (ideally) Python to define and run CI/CD pipelines. YAML is simply hell, `if` keys in such data description languages are cruel jokes.Round-trip times for GitHub Actions are too high: sometimes you're waiting for 10 minutes just to run into a dumb typo, empty string-evaluated variable or other mishap. There's zero IDE support for almost anything beyond getting the YAML syntax itself right.We have containerization for write-once-run-anywhere and languages like Python for highly productive (without footguns as bash has them), imperative descriptions of what to do. The main downside I see is it getting messy and cowboy-ish. That's where frameworks can step in. If the Dagger SDK were widely adopted, it'd be as exchangeable and widely understood/supported as, say, GitHub Actions themselves.We currently have quite inefficient GHA pipelines (repeated actions etc.) simply because the provided YAML possibilities aren't descriptive enough. (Are Turing-complete languages a bad choice for pipelines?)What's unclear to me from the article and video is how this can replace e.g. GitHub Actions. Their integration with e.g. PR status checks and the like is a must, of course. Would Dagger just run on top of a `ubuntu-latest` GHA runner?