CI/CD

Introduction Self-hosting a CI/CD system is still a common requirement when you want more control over your build environment, runners, and infrastructure. In this post, I’ll walk through how I set up DroneCI to work with GitHub repositories, using Docker Compose. Rather than covering every click in detail, the focus is on the key steps that actually matter during setup and the small but critical details that are easy to miss. ...

Setting up a self-hosted GitHub Runner on a DigitalOcean droplet allows for more control and customization in your CI/CD pipelines. This guide walks you through creating a droplet using a Docker image, configuring GitHub secrets, and setting up a self-hosted runner in a few easy steps. 1. Setup DigitalOcean Droplet 1.1 Create a DigitalOcean Droplet Start by creating a droplet from the DockerImage marketplace on DigitalOcean. This pre-configured image includes Docker, so you won’t need to install it yourself. ...

Let’s say you have multiple Drone CI runners. By some reasons, you want to route pipelines to a particular Drone CI runner. How do you do that? The answer is to use the DRONE_RUNNER_LABELS environment variable to label your Dronce CI runner and in the Drone CI pipeline, specify the the label value under the node section. Scenario Without examples, it’s hard to understand. So let’s go through an example. ...

Few months ago, I wrote a post about DroneCI: How to configure pipeline to build and push docker image. It worked well for multiple personal projects of mine. However, recently I am working on a new project which I want to deploy the image in the VPS instances with different platforms and architecture. 1. Solution Thanks to the Drcone CI plugin drone-docker-buildx, the task becomes a lot of easier. Here you go. ...

Sometimes we need to build Dockerfile to the docker image and push it to registry in CI pipeline. For instance, my development environment is windows/amd64, but my VPS is linux/arm64. At the end, I want to host the service in my VPS. Thus, it will be easy to build the docker image inside the CI pipeline. In this post, I will show how to configure the pipeline to build and push docker image in DroneCI, which is a self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams. ...