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Woodpecker CI
Woodpecker CI is a lightweight, community-driven continuous integration server that runs pipelines defined in simple YAML. Its standout trait is a minimal, fast Go server paired with stateless Docker-based agents that scale independently.
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⚙ Full Stack
A Go server storing pipeline state (SQLite by default, Postgres/MySQL supported) that dispatches jobs to stateless agents running Docker-in-Docker, with forge integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Gitea) for OAuth login and webhook triggers.
📈 Scaling Analysis
Agents are fully stateless and horizontally scalable — adding more agent replicas directly increases pipeline throughput — while the server itself is lightweight enough that a single Postgres-backed instance comfortably handles most teams' pipeline metadata load.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Deploy the server as one pod with an external Postgres pod at <podName>.pod:5432 for state, and agents as a separately scaled deployment that needs Docker-in-Docker or a sibling-container setup; agents only need outbound access to the server. Official images pull through mirror.gcr.io cleanly.