grafana/contribute/drone-pipeline.md

Making changes to the Drone pipeline

Only people in the Grafana organization can make changes to the Drone pipeline

The Drone pipelines are built with Starlark, a language which is similar to Python. The Starlark files are located in scripts/drone.

Setup

• Set environment variables DRONE_SERVER and DRONE_TOKEN, which can be found on your Drone account. These are used to verify that only Grafana employees can make changes to the pipelines.
• Install buildifier, and use it to format the Starlark files you edit.

Develop

• Open a PR where you can do test runs for your changes. If you need to experiment with secrets, create a PR in the grafana-ci-sandbox repo, before opening a PR in the main repo.
• Run make drone after making changes to the Starlark files. This builds the .drone.yml file.

For further questions, reach out to the grafana-release-guild squad.