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Services

Woodpecker provides a services section in the YAML file used for defining service containers. The below configuration composes database and cache containers.

Services are accessed using custom hostnames. In the example below, the MySQL service is assigned the hostname database and is available at database:3306.

steps:
- name: build
image: golang
commands:
- go build
- go test

services:
- name: database
image: mysql

- name: cache
image: redis

You can define a port and a protocol explicitly:

services:
- name: database
image: mysql
ports:
- 3306

- name: wireguard
image: wg
ports:
- 51820/udp

Configuration

Service containers generally expose environment variables to customize service startup such as default usernames, passwords and ports. Please see the official image documentation to learn more.

 services:
- name: database
image: mysql
+ environment:
+ - MYSQL_DATABASE=test
+ - MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes

- name: cache
image: redis

Detachment

Service and long running containers can also be included in the pipeline section of the configuration using the detach parameter without blocking other steps. This should be used when explicit control over startup order is required.

 steps:
- name: build
image: golang
commands:
- go build
- go test

- name: database
image: redis
+ detach: true

- name: test
image: golang
commands:
- go test

Containers from detached steps will terminate when the pipeline ends.

Initialization

Service containers require time to initialize and begin to accept connections. If you are unable to connect to a service you may need to wait a few seconds or implement a backoff.

 steps:
- name: test
image: golang
commands:
+ - sleep 15
- go get
- go test

services:
- name: database
image: mysql

Complete Pipeline Example

services:
- name: database
image: mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_DATABASE=test
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=example
steps:
- name: get-version
image: ubuntu
commands:
- ( apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y && apt install -y mysql-client 2>&1 )> /dev/null
- sleep 30s # need to wait for mysql-server init
- echo 'SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "version"' | mysql -uroot -hdatabase test -pexample