Yaml

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.yaml
data:
  name: name
  image: image
  commands: commands

Example base template:

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default
steps:
   - name: {{ .input.name }}
     image: {{ .input.image }}
     commands:
        - {{ .input.commands }}

Example base template with iteration:

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default
steps:
    - name: {{ .input.name }}
     image: {{ .input.image }}
     commands:
     {{ range .input.commands }}
     - {{ . }}
     {{ end }}

.drone.yml with iteration:

kind: template
load: plugin.yaml
data:
  name: name
  image: image
  commands:
  - whoami
  - date

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