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Version: 2.6.x ๐Ÿ’€

Welcome to Woodpecker

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility. It focuses on executing pipelines inside containers. If you are already using containers in your daily workflow, you'll for sure love Woodpecker.

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.woodpecker.yamlโ€‹

  • Place your pipeline in a file named .woodpecker.yaml in your repository
  • Pipeline steps can be named as you like
  • Run any command in the commands section
.woodpecker.yaml
steps:
- name: build
image: debian
commands:
- echo "This is the build step"
- name: a-test-step
image: debian
commands:
- echo "Testing.."

Steps are containersโ€‹

  • Define any container image as context
    • either use your own and install the needed tools in a custom image
    • or search for available images that are already tailored for your needs in image registries like Docker Hub
  • List the commands that should be executed in the container
 steps:
- name: build
- image: debian
+ image: mycompany/image-with-awscli
commands:
- aws help

File changes are incrementalโ€‹

  • Woodpecker clones the source code in the beginning
  • File changes are persisted throughout individual steps as the same volume is being mounted in all steps
.woodpecker.yaml
steps:
- name: build
image: debian
commands:
- touch myfile
- name: a-test-step
image: debian
commands:
- cat myfile

Plugins are straightforwardโ€‹

  • If you copy the same shell script from project to project
  • Pack it into a plugin instead
  • And make the yaml declarative
  • Plugins are Docker images with your script as an entrypoint
Dockerfile
FROM laszlocloud/kubectl
COPY deploy /usr/local/deploy
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/deploy"]
deploy
kubectl apply -f $PLUGIN_TEMPLATE
.woodpecker.yaml
steps:
- name: deploy-to-k8s
image: laszlocloud/my-k8s-plugin
settings:
template: config/k8s/service.yaml

See plugin docs.

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