# Just curious about the usage of drone in self hosted environemnt

**URL:** <https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229>\
**Category:** Drone Support\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229 "2020-03-02T12:22:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![vivekthangathurai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/vivekthangathurai/32/4919_2.png) [@vivekthangathurai](https://drone.discourse.group/u/vivekthangathurai)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229/1 "2020-03-02T12:22:57Z")

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I would like to know  
1) How many repos do you run on drone pipeline? I am interested in people using it for \> 100 repos  
2) How many pipelines do you run parallel ? just approximation  
3) What do you see as cons in using it and maintaining it?

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**Author:** ![vivekthangathurai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/vivekthangathurai/32/4919_2.png) [@vivekthangathurai](https://drone.discourse.group/u/vivekthangathurai)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229/2 "2020-03-02T16:19:06Z")

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@bradrydzewski we are planning to use it for our company. Is there any blog where people have used it for large number of repos and had success with it ?

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229/3 "2020-03-02T16:35:47Z")

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We maintain a large Drone installation with thousands of users and thousands of repositories and enough capacity to run ~80 concurrent pipelines (at [cloud.drone.io](http://cloud.drone.io)). It requires very little maintenance. The [drone-gc](https://github.com/drone/drone-gc) utility is especially helpful in reducing server maintenance.

I am not aware of too many blog posts that discuss size of installation, although ebay did discuss team size, number of services and volume in this post:  
[https://blog.drone.io/interview-with-punit-agrawal-devops-at-ebay/](https://blog.drone.io/interview-with-punit-agrawal-devops-at-ebay/)

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**Author:** ![vivekthangathurai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/vivekthangathurai/32/4919_2.png) [@vivekthangathurai](https://drone.discourse.group/u/vivekthangathurai)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/just-curious-about-the-usage-of-drone-in-self-hosted-environemnt/8229/4 "2020-03-15T12:40:04Z")

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Thanks @bradrydzewski . In the blog eBay guy says that global org level secrets were not available in the opensource edition. is it so? I saw in the documentation that we could add org level secrets through the drone CLI