Drone CI for Cloudron

Run the Drone server on Cloudron and the agents locally.

I use this setup together with a Gitea running on the same Cloudron installation.

Requirements

• docker compose (on the system you want to run the agent on)
• git
• jq
• make
• Cloudron CLI

Installation

• Run DOCKER_REPO=your-docker-hub-user make install to install the Drone server component at drone.yourdomain.com (yourdomain.com will adapt automatically to your Cloudron setup).
• Run make exec' to open the app's CLI and modify the .env' so that it can connect to your Git instance.
  • See https://readme.drone.io/server/provider/gitea/#create-an-oauth-application for information on OAuth registration in Gitea.
  • The drone instance runs at drone.yourdomain.com and the redirect URL would be https://drone.yourdomain.com/login.
  • The secrets are automatically created and added to the .env file.
• Run cloudron restart to restart the application and apply your changes.
• Check that your setup works by going to https://drone.yourdomain.com.
• If all looks good, run `runner/start.sh' to start the Drone agent on your local machine (it will grab the credentials directly from the installed app).
• Add the drone configuration to your desired repositories

Tips and tricks

I would also like to share some very useful commands. To install the drone CLI, follow the official docs.

Using drone-cli

Go to your user settings and get the login information

export DRONE_SERVER=https://drone.9wd.eu
export DRONE_TOKEN=your token
drone info

Running pipelines directly

You can also run pipelines directly from the Drone CLI:

drone exec --secret-file secrets.txt .drone.yml

A template for secrets.txt:

slack_url=https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxxxxxxx

Adding secrets from the CLI

You can either add secrets via the web interface or use drone directly from your terminal:

drone secret add -repository username/repository-name --name foo --data bar --allow-pull-request

Trigger build via curl

curl -X POST -i https://drone.9wd.eu/api/repos/felix/cloudron-drone-app/builds -H "Authorization: Bearer your-token"

Get token from https://drone.9wd.eu/account

Webhooks do not trigger builds in drone?

• Remove the webhook in Gitea
• Go to the Drone dashboard and disable the individual project in the settings.
• re-enable the project
• Go back to Gitea and "test delivery" your new webhook.

Inspiration

• Setting up a simple, self-hosted & fast CI/CD solution with Drone.io](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/2019/02/11/using-drone-for-simple-selfhosted-ci-cd/)
• Official Drone documentation](https://docs.drone.io/server/provider/gitea/)