# Drone running on Kubernetes, how to use drone-runner-docker as well?

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**Category:** Drone Support\
**Tags:** docker, kubernetes\
**Created:** [April 27, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954 "2022-04-27T11:46:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Fontana](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/eric_fontana/32/6266_2.png) [@Eric\_Fontana](https://drone.discourse.group/u/Eric_Fontana)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954/1 "2022-04-27T11:46:46Z")

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We use drone (installed via Helm) on a K8s cluster, most pipelines are `kubernetes` pipelines. Occasionally people want to use the `docker` pipeline, which uses the `drone-runner-docker` I believe. Is this possible? Would we need a dedicated AWS machine (outside k8s) to run the drone runner docker? How should this be configured/ Thanks.

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**Author:** ![brad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/brad/32/4172_2.png) [@brad](https://drone.discourse.group/u/brad)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954/2 "2022-04-28T21:14:48Z")

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Hi Eric, yes, you can install both the kubernetes runner and docker runner at the same time; the Drone server will route pipelines to to the appropriate runner based on the `type` field in the yaml. We generally recommend installing the Docker runner on a vanilla VM with Docker installed. However, if you prefer to keep everything on Kubernetes, you could provision a Pod that includes the drone-runner-docker image an docker:dind image; the runner would execute pipelines using Docker in Docker. I do not have a spec for the latter, but a member of our team is working on a Helm chart for this, which will be available as early as end of next week.

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Fontana](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/eric_fontana/32/6266_2.png) [@Eric\_Fontana](https://drone.discourse.group/u/Eric_Fontana)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954/3 "2022-05-02T13:30:04Z")

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Fantastic! Thank you…

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**Author:** ![ksully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@ksully](https://drone.discourse.group/u/ksully)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954/4 "2023-03-03T21:21:20Z")

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> [@brad](#):
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> provision a Pod that includes the drone-runner-docker image an docker:dind image; the run

Did the help chart ever get created?

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**Author:** ![ksully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@ksully](https://drone.discourse.group/u/ksully)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/drone-running-on-kubernetes-how-to-use-drone-runner-docker-as-well/11954/5 "2023-03-04T16:40:01Z")

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found it: [charts/charts/drone-runner-docker at master · drone/charts · GitHub](https://github.com/drone/charts/tree/master/charts/drone-runner-docker)

But the notes say that the pipeline should be docker? Am I looking at the right thing?