harness-drone/docs/setup/index.md

Installation

To quickly tryout Drone we have a Docker image that includes everything you need to get started. Simply run the commend below:

sudo docker pull drone/drone:0.4

And then run the container:

sudo docker run \
	--volume /var/lib/drone:/var/lib/drone \
	--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
	--env-file /etc/drone/dronerc \
	--restart=always \
	--publish=80:8000 \
	--detach=true \
	--name=drone \
	drone/drone:0.4

Drone is now running (in the background) on http://localhost:80. Note that before running you should create the --env-file and add your Drone configuration (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab credentials, etc).

Docker options

Here are some of the Docker options, explained:

• --restart=always starts Drone automatically during system init process
• --publish=80:8000 runs Drone on port 80
• --detach=true starts Drone in the background
• --volume /var/lib/drone:/var/lib/drone mounted volume to persist sqlite database
• --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock mounted volume to access Docker and spawn builds
• --env-file /etc/defaults/drone loads an external file with environment variables. Used to configure Drone.

Drone settings

Drone uses environment variables for runtime settings and configuration, such as GitHub, GitLab, plugins and more. These settings can be provided to Docker using an --env-file as seen above.

Starting, Stopping, Logs

Commands to start, stop and restart Drone:

sudo docker start drone
sudo docker stop drone
sudo docker restart drone

And to view the Drone logs:

sudo docker logs drone