Developer Manual

Welcome to the Dagger developer manual!

• With the Dagger API, you can use core primitives to stitch together powerful pipelines out of containers, artifacts, network services, and secrets – all in type-safe Go, Python or TypeScript.
• With Dagger Functions, you can encapsulate this code into a software component which can be loaded into any Dagger Engine, and called by other functions.

Start your journey into Dagger module development with the following resources:

• Understand the difference between Dagger modules and Dagger Functions
• Learn about the architecture and execution environment for Dagger modules
• Add IDE support for your Dagger Function development
• Understand Dagger Function arguments and return values
• Document your Dagger Function with inline comments
• Work with secrets and services in Dagger Functions
• Chain a Dagger Function to other Dagger Functions
• Handle errors and debug your Dagger Function