woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 409 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #40 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 4, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a simple, extensible CI/CD engine for automating software build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Offers lightweight resource usage with easy installation and strong plugin extensibility for customization.
- Use for setting up continuous integration pipelines on self-hosted Git platforms focusing on privacy and free software.
- Use for integrating automated build and deployment workflows in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Use for extending CI/CD capabilities with community and core team plugins to tailor automation to specific project needs.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.
Woodpecker can be installed in various ways (see the Installation Instructions) and runs with SQLite as database by default. It requires around 100 MB of RAM (Server) and 30 MB (Agent) at runtime in idle mode.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+377 stars over 74 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +4 on Nov 10.
Forks
737+79
Open issues
377+9
Compared with peers in Automation
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo | 142.0K | +3.8K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| superplanehq/superplane | 9.8K | +1.0K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| gosom/google-maps-scraper | 7.9K | +622 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| woodpecker-ci/woodpecker | 8.1K | — | 59 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 21.4K | +3.8K | 75 | — |
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