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Drone

harness/drone

An open-source alternative to Azure DevOps.

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. (from the repository)

Stars
38,592
Licence
Apache-2.0
Last push
2026-10-16
Written in
Go
Source on GitHub ↗Project website ↗

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 11 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Older
v2.28.2, 6 months ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
95% closed
100 open · 1,940 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
No readings yet
38,592 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.

What a business may do with it

PermissiveApache-2.0

Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.

This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.

Run it yourself

Docker, quoted from Drone’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.

docker run -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -p 3022:3022 \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v /tmp/harness:/data \
  --name harness \
  --restart always \
  harness/harness
Read the full instructions in the README ↗

Drone against the other open-source options

Every project offered against Azure DevOps, most-starred first.
Drone compared with other open-source alternatives
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Drone (this page)38,592ActivePermissiveDockerGo
Jenkins26,677ActivePermissive○Java
Buildbot5,482ActiveCopyleft○Python
All open-source alternatives to Azure DevOps →

Where this page comes from

  • Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
  • The pairing with Azure DevOps and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
  • Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data