Alternatives to Dagger

Amazon EC2

EC2 suits teams that need configurable cloud virtual servers for application, compute, or machine-learning workloads.

Garden

Garden is intended for platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and application developers running workloads on Kubernetes.

BuildKit suits developers and teams building artifacts from source, especially those needing configurable frontends, cache handling, or rootless execution.

Buildah

Buildah suits Linux users who need to build and manage container images from a command line, including rootless workflows.

Depot

Depot may suit software teams building and delivering containerized projects that use existing CI workflows or listed cache integrations.

ko suits developers building container images for Go applications, especially single applications with few dependencies on the base image.

OBS suits packagers, free software projects, and independent software vendors that need to build and distribute packages.

KIWI NG suits Linux builders creating repeatable images for virtual machines, clouds, containers, removable media, or specialized deployments.

Pack suits developers and teams building container images from application source with buildpacks, including those who want CLI or Go library access.

Source-to-Image suits developers and platform teams creating repeatable container builds from application source.

Tilt

Tilt suits teams developing microservices that communicate with services such as databases, frontends and web apps.

Earthly

Lunar may suit engineering organizations that want to define policy checks across repositories, CI/CD, pull requests, and deployment gates.

Jib suits Java developers who want to build container images through Maven, Gradle, a Java library, or a command-line interface.

Skaffold

Skaffold suits developers who want a client-side workflow for building and deploying applications across local Kubernetes and listed deployment tools.