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.

Once you have your drone container created, then you can start/stop/restart it in below ways.

Starting, Stopping, Logs

Commands to start, stop and restart Drone:

docker start drone
docker stop drone
docker restart drone

And to view the Drone logs:

docker logs drone

Upstart

Drone can be configured to work with process managers, such as Ubuntu Upstart, to automatically start when the operating system initializes. Here is an example upstart script that can be placed in /etc/init/drone.conf:

description "Drone container"

start on filesystem and started docker
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn

script
  /usr/bin/docker start -a drone
end script

Commands to start and stop Drone:

sudo start drone
sudo stop drone

Systemd

Drone can be configured to work with Systemd to automatically start when the operating system initializes. Here is an example systemd file:

[Unit]
Description=Drone container
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a drone
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 2 drone

[Install]
WantedBy=local.target

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