Implementing Modern DevOps

Drone CI

Drone is probably the newest CI server in the market. I decided to introduce it in this chapter as it was a big revelation to me when I found out about it working in nearForm Ltd. By that time, I was well used to Jenkins and it suited every single use case that I could come across in my professional life, from CI to continuous delivery and sometimes even as a bastion host using a feature called callback URL, where a job could be triggered by sending an HTTP request to a specific URL.

Drone is built around the concept of containers. Everything in Drone is a container, from the server to where the test runs, but the most interesting part is that even the plugins are containers. This makes it easy to write new plugins for executing ...