# 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](https://woodpecker-ci.org/) 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](https://woodpecker-ci.org/) 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.

Repo: [https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker)