Starlark

Templates can be used by setting the kind to ’template’, the name of the base template to load, and a set of freeform template inputs in their drone.yml file:

kind: template
load: plugin.starlark
data:
  stepName: my_step
  image: my_image
  commands: my_command

Example base template:

def main(ctx):
  return {
    "kind": "pipeline",
    "name": "build",
    "steps": [
      {
        "name": ctx.input.stepName,
        "image": ctx.input.image,
        "commands": [
            ctx.input.commands
        ]
      }
    ]
  }

Predefined variable list can be found at: https://docs.drone.io/template/variables

Create organization templates using the command line tools:

$ drone template add [namespace] [name] [data]

$ drone template add octocat template_name @path_to_file