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Woodpecker

Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine. Container-native pipelines with multi-platform support.

4 sources 6,816 stars Self-hosted Apache-2.0

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About

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine designed to streamline your continuous integration and continuous deployment processes. As an open-source project, it offers great extensibility and is completely free to use and contribute to. Woodpecker uses Docker containers to execute pipeline steps, providing a robust and flexible environment for your workflows. Woodpecker simplifies the CI/CD process while offering powerful features and extensibility options, making it an ideal choice for developers looking for a flexible and open-source solution.

Why it stands out

Woodpecker CI is an open source alternative to GitHub Actions, Jenkins. Licensed under Apache-2.0, it gives you full access to the source code and the freedom to modify, self-host, and contribute. You can deploy it on your own servers for complete data ownership and privacy.

Highlights

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Open Source

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Docker-Based

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Plugin Support

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Multi-Workflows

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Container-native pipelines

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Multi-platform support

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YAML configuration

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Matrix builds

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Plugin ecosystem

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Gitea/GitHub/GitLab integration

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