Woodpecker CI Has a Free CI/CD Server — Lightweight Drone Fork for Self-Hosting

Woodpecker CI is a community fork of Drone CI — lightweight, container-native CI/CD. What You Get for Free Container-native — every step runs in a Docker container YAML pipelines — simple, familiar configuration Multi-platform — Linux, macOS, Windows, ARM Git integration — Gitea, GitHub, GitLab, Forgejo, Bitbucket Secrets management — encrypted secrets per repo/org Matrix builds — test across multiple versions Plugins — 100+ community plugins Cron jobs — scheduled pipelines Self-hosted — free, unlimited pipelines, unlimited users Quick Start # Docker Compose docker run -d -p 8000:8000 \ -v woodpecker-data:/var/lib/woodpecker \ -e WOODPECKER_OPEN = true \ -e WOODPECKER_GITEA = true \ -e WOODPECKER_GITEA_URL = https://git.example.com \ woodpeckerci/woodpecker-server:latest # .woodpecker.yaml steps : - name : test image : node:20 commands : - npm install - npm test - name : build image : node:20 commands : - npm run build Why Developers Choose It GitHub Actions is free but cloud-only. Jen