# [Drone](https://www.drone.io/)
**Welcome to the Drone codebase, we are thrilled to have you here!**
## What is Drone?
Drone is a continuous delivery system built on container technology. Drone uses a simple YAML build file, to define and execute build pipelines inside Docker containers.
## Table of Contents
- [What is Drone?](#what-is-drone)
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Community and Support](#community-and-support)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Code of Conduct](#code-of-conduct)
- [Setup Documentation](#setup-documentation)
- [Usage Documentation](#usage-documentation)
- [Example `.drone.yml` build file](#example-droneyml-build-file)
- [Plugin Index](#plugin-index)
- [Documentation and Other Links](#documentation-and-Other-Links)
## Community and Support
[Harness Community Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/harnesscommunity/shared_invite/zt-y4hdqh7p-RVuEQyIl5Hcx4Ck8VCvzBw) - Join the #drone slack channel to connect with our engineers and other users running Drone CI.
[Harness Community Forum](https://community.harness.io/) - Ask questions, find answers, and help other users.
[Report A Bug](https://community.harness.io/c/bugs/17) - Find a bug? Please report in our forum under Drone Bugs. Please provide screenshots and steps to reproduce.
[Events](https://www.meetup.com/harness/) - Keep up to date with Drone events and check out previous events [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq34ImUGcHA&list=PLXsYHFsLmqf3zwelQDAKoVNmLeqcVsD9o).
## Contributing
We encourage you to contribute to Drone! whether thats joining in on the community slack or discourse, or contributing pull requests / documentation changes or raising issues.
## Code of Conduct
Drone follows the [CNCF Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
### Setup Documentation
This section of the [documentation](http://docs.drone.io/installation/) will help you install and configure the Drone Server and one or many Runners. A runner is a standalone daemon that polls the server for pending pipelines to execute.
### Usage Documentation
Our [documentation](http://docs.drone.io/getting-started/) can help you get started with the different types of pipelines/builds. There are different runners / plugins / extensions designed for different use cases to help make an efficient and simple build pipeline
### Plugin Index
Plugins are used in build steps to perform actions, eg send a message to slack or push a container to a registry. We have an extensive list of community plugins to customize your build pipeline, you can find those [here](http://plugins.drone.io/).
### Example `.drone.yml` build file.
This build file contains a single pipeline (you can have multiple pipelines too) that builds a go application. The front end with npm. Publishes the docker container to a registry and announces the results to a slack room.
```YAML
name: default
kind: pipeline
type: docker
steps:
- name: backend
image: golang
commands:
- go get
- go build
- go test
- name: frontend
image: node:6
commands:
- npm install
- npm test
- name: publish
image: plugins/docker
settings:
repo: octocat/hello-world
tags: [ 1, 1.1, latest ]
registry: index.docker.io
- name: notify
image: plugins/slack
settings:
channel: developers
username: drone
```
## Documentation and Other Links
* Setup Documentation [docs.drone.io/installation](http://docs.drone.io/installation/)
* Usage Documentation [docs.drone.io/getting-started](http://docs.drone.io/getting-started/)
* Plugin Index [plugins.drone.io](http://plugins.drone.io/)
* Getting Help [discourse.drone.io](https://discourse.drone.io)
* Build the Enterprise Edition [BUILDING](https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/master/BUILDING)
* Build the Community Edition [BUILDING_OSS](https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/master/BUILDING_OSS)
## Building from source
We have two versions available: the [Enterprise Edition](https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/master/BUILDING) and the [Community Edition](https://github.com/drone/drone/blob/master/BUILDING_OSS)
## Release procedure
Run the changelog generator.
```BASH
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)":/usr/local/src/your-app githubchangeloggenerator/github-changelog-generator -u drone -p drone -t
```
You can generate a token by logging into your GitHub account and going to Settings -> Personal access tokens.
Next we tag the PR's with the fixes or enhancements labels. If the PR does not fufil the requirements, do not add a label.
**Before moving on make sure to update the version file `version/version.go && version/version_test.go`.**
Run the changelog generator again with the future version according to semver.
```BASH
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)":/usr/local/src/your-app githubchangeloggenerator/github-changelog-generator -u harness -p drone -t --future-release v1.0.0
```
Create your pull request for the release. Get it merged then tag the release.
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