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Dagger

Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers. Develop your pipelines as code, in the same programming language as your application. Choose your SDK and start coding! Dagger executes your pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. This has several benefits: - Instant local testing - Portability: the same pipeline can run on your local machine, a CI runner, a dedicated server, or any container hosting service. - Superior caching: every operation is cached by def

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Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

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Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers. Develop your pipelines as code, in the same programming language as your application. Choose your SDK and start coding! Dagger executes your pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. This has several benefits: - Instant local testing - Portability: the same pipeline can run on your local machine, a CI runner, a dedicated server, or any container hosting service. - Superior caching: every operation is cached by def

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Dagger is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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DaggerCI runnerSDKpipelinescontainersInstant local testingSuperior caching
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Dagger

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Rainforest

match 77

No-code platform for end-to-end, automated software testing that integrates with any CI/CD pipeline. Improve quality and move faster without a QA team. We have a sweet YC deal.

shared extracted concept terms: pipeline, test; shared product terms: ci, cd, pipeline, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Coasts

match 72

A Coast (containerized host) is a local development runtime. Coasts let you run multiple isolated environments for the same project on one machine. As AI coding agents increasingly work in parallel across git worktrees, developers hit painful conflicts — clashing ports, duplicated databases, and fragile per-branch setup. Coasts solve this by giving each worktree its own fully isolated runtime, so multiple agents can build and test side by side without stepping on each other.

shared extracted concept terms: local; shared product terms: host, local, run, same; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Docker

match 67

Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

shared extracted concept terms: container; shared product terms: pipeline, container, code, run; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Depot

match 64

Depot is a build acceleration platform making builds up to 40x faster for Docker containers and GitHub Actions. Companies like PostHog, Wistia, Appsmith, and Secoda use Depot to save tens of hours of build time every day. We offer a remote container build service for building Intel & Arm Docker images, from your CI or local machine, up to 40x faster. Our container builds come with in-depth build insights, ephemeral registries, and instant cache sharing across your team. Finally, we also offer ou

shared extracted concept terms: container, instant; shared product terms: ci, container, instant, local; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Recrewty

match 26

Enhancing hiring operations with tailored psychometric testing

shared extracted concept terms: test; shared product terms: operation, test

Jade Hosting

match 24

Building the world's first general hosting platform. If it runs on your machine, it runs on Jade.

shared product terms: host, runs, machine