docs: Comparison needed with waypoint and garden.io

[kostis-codefresh]

Maybe I am missing something, but right now what I see in Dagger is similar to Hashicorp waypoint:

• cli for developers to quickly deploy with minimal fuss
• platform agnostic
• automatic creation of URLs for environments (Saas) version
• opinionated syntax (hcl vs cue)

I think the docs should say what are the pros/cons compared to waypoint.

Another similar project is https://garden.io/ which is even more comprehensive as it also has test phases, holds the dependencies between services, has local or remote building and can use file sync methods for local dev and so on..

[shykes]

I agree it would be nice to clarify how Dagger compares to these tools. But I don’t know what category to put them in. They are kind of like a PaaS, but not exactly similar either. And they are not widely adopted enough to justify giving them a section of their own. Alternatively, we could restructure the whole page to list each tool or project individually - but that would be a long list.

If you have suggestions for how to categorize those two tools, I’m interested.

[saiyam1814]

I think this can fit in the FAQ section, there is already an issue I created for that and also will raise a WIP PR so that we can have different FAQ's

[shykes]

I think this can fit in the FAQ section, there is already an issue I created for that and also will raise a WIP PR so that we can have different FAQ's

IMO if we have a page comparing Dagger to other software, it’s better if we use that page for all comparisons to other software, instead of splitting it across a “vs” page for some comparisons and a “faq” page for others.

[saiyam1814]

Agree if there are separate pages, let them be separate pages,
We can have the questions as part of FAQ and answer can point to that page, how does that sound ?

[shykes]

We can have the questions as part of FAQ and answer can point to that page, how does that sound ?

I think the FAQ could have a question like “how does Dagger compare to other software?”, then the answer links to the “Dagger vs other software” page.

[shykes]

I updated the “Dagger vs other software” page.

• It now fits the new positioning of Dagger as a portable CICD devkit.
• I simplified the wording of all sections.
• I added a section to compare Dagger to Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform and Pulumi

I did not add a comparison to Waypoint or Garden.io, for the same reasons I explained earlier in this thread: they don’t clearly fit a category, and they’re not popular enough to justify their own section.

[saiyam1814]

Makes sense!