Drone provides the ability to promote individual commits or tags (e.g. promote to production). When you promote a commit or tag it triggers a new pipeline execution with event type deployment. You can use the event type and target environment to limit step execution.

pipeline:
  build:
    image: golang
    commands:
      - go build
      - go test

  publish:
    image: plugins/docker
    registry: registry.heroku.com
    repo: registry.heroku.com/my-staging-app/web
    when:
+     event: deployment
+     environment: staging

  publish_to_prod:
    image: plugins/docker
    registry: registry.heroku.com
    repo: registry.heroku.com/my-production-app/web
    when:
+     event: deployment
+     environment: production

The above example demonstrates how we can configure pipeline steps to only execute when the deployment matches a specific target environment.

Trigger Deployments

Deployments are triggered from the command line utility. They are triggered from an existing build. This is conceptually similar to promoting builds.

drone deploy <repo> <build> <environment>

Promote the specified build number to your staging environment:

drone deploy octocat/hello-world 24 staging

Promote the specified build number to your production environment:

drone deploy octocat/hello-world 24 production

Questions?

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