Woodpecker CI

Woodpecker is a CI/CD engine focused on being simple to run while staying extensible through plugins contributed by both its core team and the community. Pipelines run in containers, and the server uses SQLite as its default database, keeping the runtime footprint small - the project reports around 100 MB of RAM for the server and 30 MB per agent at idle.

It's used as the primary CI/CD engine at Codeberg, an alternative Git hosting platform focused on privacy and free software, which reflects its intended fit for smaller, self-hosted setups rather than large enterprise Jenkins-style deployments.

Woodpecker is a fit for teams that want a lightweight, container-native CI/CD engine they can self-host without significant operational overhead - a lighter-weight alternative to Jenkins in the catalog for teams that don't need its plugin breadth.