# Woodpecker
> Woodpecker is a community fork of the Drone CI system.

## 🫶 Support
Please consider to donate and become a backer. 🙏 [[Become a backer](https://opencollective.com/woodpecker-ci#category-CONTRIBUTE)]
## 🚀 Usage
### .woodpecker.yml
- Place your pipeline in a file named `.woodpecker.yml` in your repository
- Pipeline steps can be named as you like
- Run any command in the commands section
[Read More](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/intro)
### Build steps are containers
- Define any Docker image as context
- Install the needed tools in custom Docker images, use them as context
[Read More](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/pipeline-syntax#steps)
### Plugins
Woodpecker has [official plugins](https://woodpecker-ci.org/plugins), but you can also use your own.
[Read More](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/plugins/plugins)
## 📖 Documentation
https://woodpecker-ci.org/
## ✨ Contribute
See [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)
[](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/development/getting-started#gitpod)
## 👋 Who uses Woodpecker?
[Codeberg](https://codeberg.org), the Woodpecker project itself, and many others.
Leave a [comment](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/issues/122) if you're using it as well.
Also consider using the topic `WoodpeckerCI` in your repository, so others can learn from your config and use the hashtag `#WoodpeckerCI` when talking about the project on social media!
Here are some places where people mention Woodpecker:
- [GitHub](https://github.com/topics/WoodpeckerCI)
- [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=woodpeckerci&topic=1)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WoodpeckerCI?f=live)
- [Fediverse](https://mastodon.social/tags/WoodpeckerCI)
## ✨ Stars over time
[](https://starchart.cc/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker)
## License
Woodpecker is Apache 2.0 licensed with the source files in this repository having a header indicating which license they are under and what copyrights apply.
Files under the `docs/` folder are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.