I hate woodpeckers, but I really like this CI/CD tool.
So occasionally I stumble across interesting tools that somehow don't come up as a part of my normal tool research but instead are buried deep in the comments of one of the long format forums I prefer. WoodPecker CI is one of these tools. I had never encountered it despite looking repeatedly at all the simple CI/CD tools I could find. And my initial take on this tool is it has a very nice sweet spot as a standalone CI/CD tool you can hook up to an existing code repository. Here's a quick take on the features:
- Apache 2.0 Licensed
- Written in Go-lang
- Docker-compose, Helm chart, or binary installation
- Sqlite by default, but supports MySQL and Postgres
- Prometheus endpoint built in
- YAML pipeline and step definition
- Conditional step execution
- Matrix builds
- Docker based build agents
I'm really not sure why WoodPecker CI didn't show up in my recent research on continuous integration tools, but I hope posting a bit about it helps that situation. I will definitely be trying it out on some projects I have in need of a simple CI solution where the normal easy CI/CD buttons aren't available. Maybe I'll give a more in depth review of this CI tool after those efforts.
