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Europa docs: get started with CI/CD in local dev
The idea is to start simple and get users a good feel for how this works
within 5 minutes or less. We should cover the three popular OSes, and
ensure that everything works as expected.

At the end of this, users will have Dagger set up for local CI/CD, and
know how to make a change to the example app and re-run the build, test
& deploy loop.

This is part of https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1327

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Lazu <gerhard@lazu.co.uk>
2022-03-05 23:58:49 +00:00

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---
slug: /1200/local-dev
displayed_sidebar: europa
---
# CI/CD in your local dev
Everyone should be able to run their CI/CD pipeline locally.
Having to commit & push in order to test a change is a slow way to iterate on a pipeline.
This guide shows you the Dagger way.
Within 5 minutes, you will have a local CI/CD loop and run your first build, test & deploy pipeline.
import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
<Tabs defaultValue="macos"
groupId="os"
values={[
{label: 'macOS', value: 'macos'}, {label: 'Linux', value: 'linux'}, {label: 'Windows', value: 'windows'},
]}>
<TabItem value="macos">
We assume that you have [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) installed.
If you do, you can install `dagger` with a single command:
```shell
brew install dagger/tap/dagger
```
Check that `dagger` installed correctly by verifying its execution path:
```shell
type dagger
dagger is /opt/homebrew/bin/dagger
```
Before we can build, test & deploy our example app with `dagger`, we need to have Docker running.
You most likely already have Docker set up.
If not, [Docker Desktop](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) makes this easy.
With Docker running, we are ready to download our example app and use its dev CI/CD pipeline:
```shell
git clone https://github.com/dagger/examples
cd examples/todoapp
```
With everything in place, we run the CI/CD pipeline locally:
```shell
dagger up dev.cue
```
With an empty cache, installing all dependencies, then building, testing & deploying this example app completes in just under 3 minutes:
```shell
[] inputs.directories.app 0.3s
[] actions.test 125.6s
[] actions.build 163.0s
[+] actions.deploy 167.5s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
:::caution
[localhost:8020](http://localhost:8020) is not accessible on macOS 12 & Docker 20.10.12. Works fine on Linux 🤷
:::
We can now access the application on [localhost:8020](http://localhost:8020) and get a preview of what the app would look like if the same thing ran in a CI environment.
While this is a good first step, it gets better when we run this again - the cache makes it quicker.
Type `^C` to exit the deployment, and run `dagger up dev.cue` again:
```shell
[] inputs.directories.app 0.1s
[] actions.build 0.6s
[] actions.test 0.6s
[+] actions.deploy 1.1s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
Now that we have everything running locally, let us make a change and get a feel for our local CI/CD loop.
The quicker we can close this loop, the quicker we can learn what actually works.
In the todoapp dir, edit line `25` of `src/components/Form.js` and save the file.
I change this line to `What must be done today?` and run build, test & deploy again:
```shell
dagger up dev.cue
[] inputs.directories.app 7.5s
[] actions.build 94.7s
[] actions.test 57.3s
[+] actions.deploy 96.1s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
The total `94.7s` time is macOS specific, since the Linux alternative is more than 5x quicker.
Either way, this local build, test & deploy loop is likely to change the approach to iterating on changes.
It becomes even more obvious when the change is not as straightforward as knowing _exactly_ which line to edit.
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="linux">
[Download the latest 64bit Linux binary release](https://github.com/dagger/dagger/releases/latest).
We support both x86 & ARM architectures.
We install `dagger` in `/usr/local/bin`, but anywhere in your `PATH` works:
```shell
type dagger
dagger is /usr/local/bin/dagger
```
Before we can build, test & deploy our example app with `dagger`, we need to have Docker Engine running.
You most likely already have Docker Engine set up.
If not, [Docker on Linux install](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/#server) makes this easy.
With Docker Engine running, we are ready to download our example app and use its dev CI/CD pipeline:
```shell
git clone https://github.com/dagger/examples
cd examples/todoapp
```
With everything in place, we run the CI/CD pipeline locally:
```shell
dagger up dev.cue
```
With an empty cache, installing all dependencies, then building, testing & deploying this example app completes in just under 1 minute:
```shell
[] inputs.directories.app 0.3s
[] actions.test 45.1s
[] actions.build 53.8s
[+] actions.deploy 57.5s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
We can now access the application on [localhost:8020](http://localhost:8020) and get a preview of what the app would look like if the same thing ran in a CI environment.
While this is a good first step, it gets better when we run this again - the cache makes it quicker.
Type `^C` to exit the deployment, and run `dagger up dev.cue` again:
```shell
[] inputs.directories.app 0.1s
[] actions.build 1.7s
[] actions.test 1.8s
[+] actions.deploy 2.1s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
Now that we have everything running locally, let us make a change and get a feel for our local CI/CD loop.
The quicker we can close this loop, the quicker we can learn what actually works.
In the todoapp dir, edit line `25` of `src/components/Form.js` and save the file.
I change this line to `What must be done today?` and run build, test & deploy again:
```shell
dagger up dev.cue
[] inputs.directories.app 0.1s
[] actions.build 24.7s
[] actions.test 16.2s
[+] actions.deploy 17.1s
#18 INFO: System: Ran is running on HTTP port 8020
#18 INFO: System: Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8020
```
Being able to re-run a build, test & deploy loop locally in `17.1s` is likely to change the approach to iterating on changes.
It becomes even more obvious when the change is not as straightforward as knowing _exactly_ which line to edit.
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="windows">
We assume that you have [curl](https://curl.se/windows/) installed.
If you do, you can install `dagger` with a single command. From a powershell terminal, run the following command:
```shell
curl https://releases.dagger.io/dagger/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1 ; ./install.ps1; rm install.ps1
```
We try to move the dagger binary under `C:\Windows\System32` but
in case we miss the necessary permissions, we'll save everything under `<your home folder>/dagger`
Check that `dagger` is installed correctly by opening a command prompt and run:
```shell
where dagger
C:\<your home folder>\dagger.exe
```
</TabItem>
</Tabs>
:::tip
Now that we are comfortable with our local CI/CD loop, let us configure a remote CI environment in the second part.
Dagger makes this easy.
:::