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Woodpecker is a community-driven fork of Drone CI — container-native pipeline executor, YAML config, Git provider integrations. Started in 2019 when Drone's commercial direction concerned the community; now actively developed by an independent maintainer collective.
Woodpecker is a community-driven fork of Drone CI — container-native pipeline executor, YAML config, Git provider integrations. Started in 2019 when Drone's commercial direction concerned the community; now actively developed by an independent maintainer collective.
For teams who want Drone CI's container-native approach with stronger community governance, Woodpecker is the answer.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick Woodpecker CI over the SaaS alternative.
build, test, lint on every commit
deploy to staging / production
any language via container images
same model, community-owned
every step is a Docker container
If your team profile matches one of these, Woodpecker CI is a strong fit out of the box.
preferring community governance over commercial ownership
evaluating Drone alternatives post-Harness acquisition
building self-hosted CI for their pipelines
moving off per-minute commercial CI
preferring container-native CI design
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Woodpecker CI consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug Woodpecker CI into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
woodpeckerci/woodpecker-server:v3.0 (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
woodpeckerci/woodpecker-server:v3.13.0 · woodpeckerci/woodpecker-agent:v3.13.0