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Drone Chart Usage Guide

Drone is a modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) platform built on container technology. This chart lets you deploy Drone on Kubernetes easily.

Why use this chart?​

  • Run CI/CD pipelines in your own Kubernetes cluster
  • Community-maintained and up-to-date
  • Supports plugins and custom runners

Installation​

helm repo add community-charts https://community-charts.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install my-drone community-charts/drone -n <your-namespace>

Replace <your-namespace> with your target namespace.

tip

For advanced configuration, see the Configuration page.

Upgrading​

helm upgrade my-drone community-charts/drone -n <your-namespace>

Uninstalling​

helm uninstall my-drone -n <your-namespace>

This removes all Kubernetes resources created by the chart.

Example: Install with Gitea and Postgres​

server:
  ingress:
    enabled: true
    hosts:
      - host: drone.example.com
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: ImplementationSpecific
  env:
    DRONE_SERVER_HOST: drone.example.com
    DRONE_SERVER_PROTO: http
    DRONE_DATABASE_DRIVER: postgres
    DRONE_GITEA_SERVER: http://gitea.example.com
  secrets:
    DRONE_DATABASE_DATASOURCE: "postgres://postgres:postgres@postgres-service:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable"
    DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_ID: <client-id>
    DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_SECRET: <client-secret>
    DRONE_USER_CREATE: "username:testuser,admin:true"
    DRONE_USER_FILTER: testuser
warning

Never store secrets in your git repository. Use Kubernetes secrets or Helm --set for sensitive values.

Next Steps​