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5 self-hosted Drone CI alternatives

Cloud-hosted continuous integration and delivery platform that automates building, testing, and deploying applications from Git repositories using YAML pipeline configurations and containerized pipeline steps. Integrates with Git providers and supports secrets, plugins, and parallel builds.

Alternatives to Drone CI

OneDev is a self-hosted DevOps platform combining Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, Kanban-style issue tracking, code review, and built-in package registries.

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15.2k stars973 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source web UI and API for running Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Bash, and PowerShell tasks with project isolation and access control.

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14.1k stars1.3k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Woodpecker CI is an open source CI/CD system that runs pipelines in containers, supports multiple workflows per repo, and integrates with Git forges via webhooks.

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7.8k stars658 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform providing Git repository hosting, issue tracking, merge requests, and built-in CI/CD pipelines for teams.

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SourceHut is an open source software development platform with Git/Mercurial hosting, continuous integration, mailing lists with code review, tickets, wikis, and more.

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What replacing Drone CI actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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