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Woodpecker
An opinionated fork of the Drone CI system.
- Based on the v0.8 code tree
- Focused on developer experience.
Table of contents
About this fork
Motivation
Why fork? See my motivation
The focus of this fork
This fork is not meant to compete with Drone or reimplement its enterprise features in the open.
Instead, I'm taking a proven CI system - that Drone 0.8 is - and applying a distinct set of product ideas focusing on:
- UI experience
- the developer feedback loop
- documentation and best practices
- tighter Github integration
- Kubernetes backend
with less focus on:
- niche git systems like gitea, gogs
- computing architectures like arm64
- new pipeline formats like jsonnet
Who uses this fork
Currently I know of one organization using this fork. With 50+ users, 130+ repos and more than 300 builds a week.
Pipelines
Getting started
Place this snippet into a file called .drone.yml
pipeline:
build:
image: debian:stable-slim
commands:
- echo "This is the build step"
a-test-step:
image: debian:stable-slim
commands:
- echo "Testing.."
The pipeline runs on the Drone CI server and typically triggered by webhooks. One benefit of the container architecture is that it runs on your laptop too:
$ drone exec --local
stable-slim: Pulling from library/debian
a94641239323: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:d846d80f98c8aca7d3db0fadd14a0a4c51a2ce1eb2e9e14a550b3bd0c45ba941
Status: Downloaded newer image for debian:stable-slim
[build:L0:0s] + echo "This is the build step"
[build:L1:0s] This is the build step
[a-test-step:L0:0s] + echo "Testing.."
[a-test-step:L1:0s] Testing..
Pipeline steps are commands running in container images. These containers are wired together and they share a volume with the source code on it.
Pipeline documentation
See all pipeline features.
Plugins
Plugins are Docker containers that perform pre-defined tasks and are configured as steps in your pipeline. Plugins can be used to deploy code, publish artifacts, send notification, and more.
Example pipeline using the Docker and Slack plugins:
pipeline:
backend:
image: golang
commands:
- go get
- go build
- go test
docker:
image: plugins/docker
username: kevinbacon
password: pa55word
repo: foo/bar
tags: latest
notify:
image: plugins/slack
channel: developers
username: drone
Custom plugins
Plugins are Docker containers with their entrypoint set to a predefined script.
See how an example plugin can be implemented in a bash script.
Server setup
Contributing
woodpecker is Apache 2.0 licensed and accepts contributions via GitHub pull requests.
How to build the project
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 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. It is a derivative work of the https://github.com/drone/docs git repository.