Solomon Hykes

Don't use vagrant

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Vagrant is great to manage VMs which 1) are custom, 2) have lots of moving parts and 3) change often. In contrast, to run docker on OSX you only ever...

"sending tarball" takes a long time even when the image already exists

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When I build an image which already exists (because of a previous build on the same engine with 100% cache hit), the builder still spends a lot of time in...

0.3 CLI design

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## Overview As part of the 0.3 engine release (codename cloak), the `dagger` CLI needs a redesign to replace the `cloak` binary used during development. ## Task list This issue...

Rename exec to something less confusing

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## Problem Developers learning Dagger get occasionally confused by the programming model. Most commonly the confusion revolves around the exact behavior of `Container.Exec`: when is a command actually executed, and...

## Overview When a client opens a session to a Dagger Engine to query its API, some aspects of the session should be configurable with optional parameters. The client developer...

## Problem In the documentation, we talk about the Dagger Engine [in these terms](https://docs.dagger.io/#how-does-it-work): > Using the SDK, your program opens a new session to a Dagger Engine: either by...

Generate DAG visualization

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It would be amazing if the engine could produce a Mermaid or Graphviz file representing the DAG that it just ran.

## Problem As reported by @marcosnils : > I had to use the git API recently and got surprised that I needed to specify either a branch or a tag....

Guide: building a docker container

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There should be a guide specifically about building a docker container with Dagger. NOTE: this is different from building a eg. Go binary.

## Problem When navigating to [https://docs.dagger.io/install](https://docs.dagger.io/install) I see the old 0.2 install docs, without context making that clear. There are 2 problems here: * The URL doesn't have an ID...