How to Install Drone on Fedora CoreOS Latest

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Drone, a popular continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

Before we start, you need to have the following prerequisites.

  • A Fedora CoreOS instance
  • A user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Docker

The first step is to install Docker, as Drone runs in a Docker container. 

sudo rpm-ostree install docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo systemctl start docker

You can check if Docker is running using the following command:

sudo docker ps

This command should list running containers, and if Docker is not running, it will prompt you to install it.

Step 2: Create a file for Drone configuration

Next, we need to create a file called .drone.yml in the root directory of the project whose CI/CD pipeline you want to configure. This file contains the configuration of the pipeline you want to run.

touch .drone.yml

Step 3: Install Drone

You can install Drone using a Docker Compose file. The following command will create a Docker Compose file and start the Drone server:

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drone/drone/master/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
sudo docker-compose up -d

This command will start the Drone server and create a new user interface, accessible via a web browser at http://<your-server-ip>:80.

Step 4: Configure the Drone server

Now that we have installed Drone, we need to configure it. Open the ${root}/.drone.yml file in a text editor and define the CI/CD pipeline you want to run.

kind: pipeline
name: example-pipeline
steps:
  - name: install
    image: fedora
    commands:
      - dnf install -y git
  - name: build
    image: fedora
    commands:
      - git clone https://github.com/drone/drone
      - cd drone
      - make build

In this example, we define two steps. The first step installs Git, and the second steps clones the Drone source code from GitHub and builds it. Change the configuration as per your requirements.

Step 5: Connect GitHub to Drone

Drone supports various version control systems, including GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. In this example, we will connect Drone and GitHub.

  1. Log in to your Drone server using the web interface.
  2. Click the user icon in the top right corner and select "Account".
  3. Click "Connect" next to GitHub.
  4. Follow the prompts to grant Drone access to your GitHub account.

Step 6: Run the CI/CD pipeline

The last step is to run the CI/CD pipeline.

  1. Open the root directory of the project where you created the .drone.yml file.
  2. Commit and push changes to the repository.
  3. Open the Drone web interface and navigate to the project you just committed changes to.
  4. You will see that the CI/CD pipeline has been triggered, and you can monitor its progress in real-time.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Drone on Fedora CoreOS and run your first CI/CD pipeline.