I have read in the documentation that a runner can be connected to the drone server via the DRONE_RPC_HOST and DRONE_RPC_SECRET environment variables.
However, I cannot find out how I can target each runner in my pipeline. In my scenario I would like to deploy merges to the main branch to on my production server and dev branch to my test sever.
Drone is not really meant to work this way. Drone was designed to run pipelines across a pool of available nodes, similar to travis or circle (where you don’t get to pick the node). If you want to deploy to a specific machine, you add a step to your pipeline that uses something like scp to upload artifacts to the machine, or ssh to login and execute commands on the machine.
Thanks for the explanation. I think the following part can be added to runners documentation. It will help beginners like myself.
Drone was designed to run pipelines across a pool of available nodes,