Drone CI is a container-native CI server now owned by Harness, licensed under the Polyform Small Business license with an Enterprise Edition; these pages cover moving to Woodpecker CI, the open-source fork of Drone.
Comparing Drone with Woodpecker CI, the Apache-licensed community fork of Drone 0.8: licensing and user limits, pipeline syntax, plugin compatibility, supported forges, Kubernetes backends and how actively each is developed.
Moving from Drone to Woodpecker: renaming pipeline files to .woodpecker.yaml or a .woodpecker directory, checking Drone plugins that need adjustments, moving secrets and forge OAuth applications, and running the two servers side by side during cut-over.
Drone Enterprise is free only below US$1 million revenue and its license covers up to 15 users per instance. This page sets the license terms and cost drivers against running Woodpecker CI with no user limits, plus support and operations.
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