Drone is a container-native open-source continuous delivery platform owned by Harness. Pipelines are defined in YAML and executed in Docker containers. The Drone server exposes a REST API used by the Drone CLI, dashboard and SDKs. Drone Enterprise has been consolidated into Harness Continuous Integration.
APIs.json: apis.yml
- Drone Server REST —
http://<drone-server>:8080/api— Bearer-token auth. Resources: builds, repos, cron, secrets, users, templates, logs, queue. Docs.
Drone does not currently publish a public OpenAPI/Swagger document for the server REST API; pipeline did not retrieve a spec into openapi/. SDKs (Go, Node, Python) cover the surface.
DevOps, CI/CD, Container-Native, Open Source, YAML, Harness
- Website · Docs · Source
- Owner: Harness CI
- Plans — partially reconciled (editions; commercial pricing rolled into Harness)
- Rate Limits — operational knobs documented; no managed quota
- FinOps — reconciled, FOCUS-aligned
- Drone Open Source — Apache 2.0; free.
- Harness Continuous Integration — commercial successor to Drone Enterprise; sold via Harness sales.
- Created: 2026-05-08
- Modified: 2026-05-08
- Kin Lane — kin@apievangelist.com