Woodpecker CI
Community fork of Drone (from before Drone changed its licence), Apache-2.0, server + agent run in under ~50 MB RAM. Actively maintained.
- Based in
- Community (FOSS)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Hosting
- self-hosted
- Data residency
- Fully self-hosted - your data never leaves your own servers.
- Free tier
- Free and open source; no license cost.
- Best for
- Lightweight self-hosted CI for Gitea, Forgejo or GitHub - minimal footprint.
- Alternative to
- Drone, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
Sources: github.com (Mon Jul 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)), woodpecker-ci.org (Mon Jul 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time))