Drone 0.9.0 status/source?

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Hi, thanks for this project, looks very useful. I’m looking at getting a drone system for the first time. I’ve got a working docker-compose using the latest 0.9.0 alpha 2 release on docker hub, and also a .drone.yml file pushing some builds through this.

However, as I’m new to this, I’m a little confused on the difference between the yaml described on https://readme.drone.io/config/pipeline/steps/ vs http://docs.drone.io/pipelines/ - I think that’s the difference between the 0.8.x release and 0.9.x but could someone confirm this please?

Also … there doesn’t seem to be source for the 0.9.0 release on github/drone/drone, is this available somewhere else?

If there’s about to be a large change, then I’d like to be working from the latest release. I’m looking to make some changes so that I can use drone to spawn VMs on our internal system - I’ve done something similar with a gitlab runner previously but we’re moving from gitlab to github now so I’d like to use drone instead.

Thanks

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readme.drone.io is the temporary home of the 0.9 documentation (alpha) and docs.drone.io is the current stable release (0.8). I just needed a temporary place to stash the 0.9 docs. They eventually will point to the same version of documentation once 0.9 is stable.

If you are looking to future-proof your work I would start with 0.9, under the caveat that it is still unstable (and still has some UI bugs) and there may be some minor breaking yaml changes before we cut a final release. Core development is happening in a private branch, and the source will be made available before end of year.

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Thanks Brad, that certainly clarifies things. I need source for what I’m doing, in order to try getting it to launch VMs instead of containers (I have to work with Mac and Windows too) so I guess I’ll have to base on 0.8 for now.

Quick question though … Has the backend/engine code changed much in 0.9?

Cheers

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We made changes to the underlying data structures, but I would not describe these changes as significant. Porting an 0.8 engine to 0.9 would likely require a few hours of refactoring.

Drone 0.9 supports native-windows containers if you are running Windows Server 1803. See https://docs.drone.io/server/provider/github/

We are also planning to support pipelines based on vmware fusion. The yaml syntax will be slightly different since the primitives (vm vs containers) are different. I am not sure if support for native vms will land in 0.9 or a subsequent release …

Example vmware fusion syntax:

---
version: 1
kind: pipeline
type: vmwarefusion

settings:
  image: osx.img

platform:
  os: osx
  arch: amd64

steps:
- name: build
  commands:
  - go build
  - go test
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Core development is happening in a private branch, and the source will be made available before end of year.

Sorry to bother, but is there any reason why this is done in a private branch instead of in the public open source repository? It would be cool to follow the developments (the source code) and be able to contribute to the project.

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I would also like to see the 0.9 branch be made public. I’d like to update my drone RPMs to this version.

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Hi Brad (@bradrydzewski), just wondering whether there was any update?