dronetrigger

Simple tool to trigger drone builds. Can be used for more advanced crons or in scripts.

Note: dronetrigger injects the variable DRONETRIGGER=true into the steps. Use this to determine if a build was triggered.

Configuration

The configfile is either /etc/dronetrigger.yml or supplied by -config.

Sample:

---

url: https://drone.example.com
token: thisisnotavaliddronetoken1234567

web:
  bearer_token:
    octocat/test: s3cret_t0ken

• url represents the URL to a drone server
• token is used to authentificate against drone
• web.bearer_token.*: sets up a per repo secret to trigger builds

Usage

Note: After adding new repos you need to sync the repositories, otherwise you may get 404 errors. Also make sure that the access rights are configured for the token.

DRONE_TOKEN="$token_from_etc_drontrigger_yml" drone repo sync

CLI examples:

# build default branch of a repo
dronetrigger -repo octocat/test

# build specific branch of a repo
dronetrigger -repo octocat/test -branch master

# rebuild a release
dronetigger -repo octocat/test -release

Web examples:

# rebuild last commit on a branch
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer s3cret_token' -d '{"repo": "octocat/test", "branch": "master"}' $url

# rebuild last tag
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer s3cret_token' -d '{"repo": "octocat/test", "release": true}' $url

# promote last commit on a branch
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer s3cret_token' -d '{"repo": "octocat/test", "branch": "master", "target": "promote-name"}' $url

# promote last tag
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer s3cret_token' -d '{"repo": "octocat/test", "release": true, "target": "promote-name"}' $url

Help:

$ dronetrigger -h
Usage of ./dronetrigger:
  -config string
    	Configuration file. (default "/etc/dronetrigger.yml")
  -branch string
    	Git rev (i.e. branch) to trigger build.
  -repo string
    	Repository to build (i.e. octocat/awesome).