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Lightweight CI Autonomy

  • Understanding the risks of vendor lock-in and data exposure with cloud CI/CD services.
  • Woodpecker CI design principles: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnosticism.
  • Comparing Woodpecker CI with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.

Server and Agent Deployment

  • Setting up the Docker Compose stack: server, agents, and database.
  • Configuring environment variables and registering with Forge OAuth.
  • Utilizing agent labels, capacity planning, and resource limits.

Pipeline Authoring

  • Understanding woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditions.
  • Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
  • Managing parallel execution and dependency chains.

Forge Integration

  • Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
  • Setting up branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag events.
  • Generating commit status reports and badges.

Secrets and Security

  • Managing repository, organization, and global secret scopes.
  • Injecting credentials for deployment stages.
  • Ensuring network isolation and distinguishing between trusted and untrusted agents.

Matrix Builds and Caching

  • Implementing multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
  • Using cache plugins for dependency directories.
  • Uploading artifacts to S3-compatible storage.

Operations

  • Monitoring server logs, agent telemetry, and queue status.
  • Scaling agents horizontally using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
  • Backing up and restoring pipeline history and secrets.

Requirements

  • Intermediate knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with Linux server administration and Docker.
  • Familiarity with administering Gitea or Forgejo.

Audience

  • DevOps teams requiring a lightweight, self-hosted CI solution for Gitea/Forgejo.
  • Organizations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS.
  • Small-to-medium teams desiring pipeline control without unnecessary features.
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