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flow.ci user guide

A powerful and user-friendly CI/CD server

What is flow.ci?

flow.ci is an open-source CI/CD automation server that designed for reducing the complexity and increasing user experience. It supports high availability, multiple building environment, and scalability with dynamic agents.

• High Availability

  flow.ci is designed to work in the cloud -- public, private, or hybrid, it could be deployed with multiple instances, the configuration/jobs data on the node may not be lost when the instance fails.

• Zero Configuration

  flow.ci tries to minimize the complexity of any configuration, the server could be started with three command lines. It also provides build templates of many programming languages, a job could be started just using it.

• Dynamic Agents

  flow.ci could scale agent automatically either on K8s cluster or Linux host.

• Online Debugging

  flow.ci supports the online TTY terminal so that you could find out the problems in the running job from runtime terminal.

• Flexible Plugins

  Using plugins on flow.ci is quite simple, you just need type the plugin name in the step. Developing a plugin is also quite easy, you could use any language on your own plugin development.

• Flexible Runtime

  Each step or step group can be run either on any docker images or native os.

Quick start

Docker & Docker-Compose are required

git clone https://github.com/FlowCI/docker.git flow-docker
cd flow-docker
./server.sh start

Documentation

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• 简体中文

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Templates

maven, npm, golang, ruby, android and more

Architecture

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