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-delivery squad.