Drone automatically creates a shared volume for each Pipeline that is mounted to every Step at /drone/src. This shared volume is known as the Workspace. The Workspace is the working directory of every Step and the location to which your repository is cloned.
The shared Workspace allows you to generate files and artifacts and share them between steps in your Pipeline. For example when you run npm install it creates a node_modules file in the working directory, which is then available to subsequent steps in your Pipeline.
You can verify this behavior with the below configuration:
kind: pipeline
name: default
steps:
- name: foo
image: alpine:3.8
commands:
- touch foo.txt
- name: bar
image: alpine:3.8
commands:
- ls foo.txt
Conceptually you can visualize this as Drone executing the below Docker commands. Note that these are not the exact commands or parameters that Drone is executing, and are only meant to help visualize how this works.
docker volume create workspace
docker run --volume=workspace:/drone/src alpine:3.8 /bin/sh -c "touch foo.txt"
docker run --volume=workspace:/drone/src alpine:3.8 /bin/sh -c "ls bar.txt"
Temporary Volumes
Sometimes you need to share files or artifacts among Steps that are outside of your workspace. For example, you may want to share the /go directory or /root/.m2. This can be achieved with temporary volumes:
kind: pipeline
name: default
steps:
- name: foo
image: alpine:3.8
volumes:
- name: m2
path: /root/.m2
commands:
- touch /root/.m2/foo.txt
- name: bar
image: alpine:3.8
volumes:
- name: m2
path: /root/.m2
commands:
- ls /root/.m2/foo.txt
volumes:
- name: m2
temp: {}
is there also a way how we can share a temporary volume between two pipelines instead only between the steps of one pipeline?