Drone is a lightweight, powerful continuous delivery platform built for containers. Drone is packaged and distributed as a Docker image and can be downloaded from Dockerhub.

docker pull drone/drone:0.8

Docker Compose

This section provides basic instructions for installing Drone using docker-compose. The below configuration (save it as docker-compose.yaml) can be used to start the Drone server with a single agent. It relies on a number of environment variables that you must set before running docker-compose up. The variables are described below.

Each agent is able to process one build by default. If you have 4 agents installed and connected to the Drone server, your system will process 4 builds in parallel.

You can add more agents to increase the number of parallel builds.

You can also adjust the agent’s DRONE_MAX_PROCS=1 environment variable to increase the number of parallel builds for that agent.

version: '2'

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    ports:
      - 80:8000
      - 9000
    volumes:
      - drone-server-data:/var/lib/drone/
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DRONE_OPEN=true
      - DRONE_HOST=${DRONE_HOST}
      - DRONE_GITHUB=true
      - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
      - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

  drone-agent:
    image: drone/agent:0.8

    command: agent
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - drone-server
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    environment:
      - DRONE_SERVER=drone-server:9000
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

volumes:
  drone-server-data:

Drone does not have any builtin user management. Instead, authentication is done using OAuth and is delegated to one of multiple version control providers, configured using environment variables. The example above demonstrates basic GitHub integration.

You must register Drone with GitHub to obtain the DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT and DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET used above. The authorization callback url must match <scheme>://<host>/authorize.

You can register Drone as a user or organizational OAuth App.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    environment:
      - DRONE_OPEN=true
      - DRONE_ORGS=dolores,dogpatch
      - DRONE_ADMIN=johnsmith,janedoe
+     - DRONE_GITHUB=true
+     - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
+     - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

Drone mounts a data volume to persist the sqlite database.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    ports:
      - 80:8000
      - 9000
+   volumes:
+     - drone-server-data:/var/lib/drone/
    restart: always

Drone needs to know its own address. You must therefore provide the address in <scheme>://<hostname> format. Please omit trailing slashes.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    environment:
      - DRONE_OPEN=true
+     - DRONE_HOST=${DRONE_HOST}
      - DRONE_GITHUB=true
      - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
      - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

Drone agents require access to the host machine Docker daemon.

services:
  drone-agent:
    image: drone/agent:0.8

    command: agent
    restart: always
    depends_on: [ drone-server ]
+   volumes:
+     - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Drone agents require the server address for agent-to-server communication.

services:
  drone-agent:
    image: drone/agent:0.8

    command: agent
    restart: always
    depends_on: [ drone-server ]
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    environment:
+     - DRONE_SERVER=drone-server:9000
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

Drone server and agents use a shared secret to authenticate communication. This should be a random string of your choosing and should be kept private.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    environment:
      - DRONE_OPEN=true
      - DRONE_HOST=${DRONE_HOST}
      - DRONE_GITHUB=true
      - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
      - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
+     - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}
  drone-agent:
    image: drone/agent:0.8

    environment:
      - DRONE_SERVER=drone-server:9000
      - DRONE_DEBUG=true
+     - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

Drone registration is closed by default. This example enables open registration for users that are members of approved GitHub organizations.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    environment:
+     - DRONE_OPEN=true
+     - DRONE_ORGS=dolores,dogpatch
      - DRONE_HOST=${DRONE_HOST}
      - DRONE_GITHUB=true
      - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
      - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

Drone administrators should also be enumerated in your configuration.

services:
  drone-server:
    image: drone/drone:0.8

    environment:
      - DRONE_OPEN=true
      - DRONE_ORGS=dolores,dogpatch
+     - DRONE_ADMIN=johnsmith,janedoe
      - DRONE_HOST=${DRONE_HOST}
      - DRONE_GITHUB=true
      - DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT=${DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT}
      - DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET=${DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET}
      - DRONE_SECRET=${DRONE_SECRET}

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