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Lightweight CI Sovereignty

  • Understanding how cloud CI/CD services can lead to vendor lock-in and expose secrets.
  • Woodpecker CI design objectives: simplicity, Docker-native architecture, and forge-agnostic functionality.
  • Comparative analysis with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Drone, and Jenkins.

Server and Agent Deployment

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

Pipeline Authoring

  • Mastering woodpecker.yml syntax: steps, services, and conditional logic.
  • Selecting Docker images and mounting workspaces.
  • Implementing parallel execution and dependency chains.

Forge Integration

  • Configuring webhooks for Gitea and Forgejo.
  • Setting up branch filtering, pull request triggers, and tag events.
  • Reporting commit statuses and generating 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

  • Creating multi-language and multi-version test matrices.
  • Utilizing the cache plugin 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 experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of Linux server administration and Docker.
  • Familiarity with Gitea or Forgejo administration.

Audience

  • DevOps teams requiring lightweight self-hosted CI for Gitea/Forgejo.
  • Organizations seeking to avoid GitHub Actions or GitLab CI SaaS offerings.
  • Small to medium-sized teams desiring pipeline sovereignty without unnecessary bloat.
 14 Hours

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