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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Before writing a single line of PikoCI I decided it would not be YAML. Spent time writing pipelines in HCL to see how they'd look. They looked better. That was enough. dev.to/xescugc/why-... #cicd #devops #golang #hcl

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Why PikoCI uses HCL instead of YAML

Why PikoCI uses HCL instead of YAML Almost every CI/CD tool uses YAML. GitHub Actions,...

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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wrote about why I dropped NATS, Kafka and RabbitMQ from PikoCI and replaced everything with a single gRPC stream. The queue was just a doorbell anyway. dev.to/xescugc/why-... #golang #grpc #devops #cicd

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Why I replaced queue-based worker communication with gRPC

Replacing Queues with gRPC in PikoCI When I started building PikoCI, I kept coming back to...

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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

PikoCI v0.7.0 is out, the security and compliance release. Approval gates, audit log, OIDC/OAuth2, secrets masking in logs, build report export, worker team isolation. dev.to/xescugc/piko... #cicd #devops #golang #selfhosted

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PikoCI v0.7.0: Approval gates, audit log, OIDC, secrets masking, and build reports

PikoCI is an open-source CI/CD server written in Go. A single binary, no dependencies,...

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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

No Docker-in-Docker. PikoCI has first-class services, ephemeral processes that start before your tasks and stop after, guaranteed. Wrote about how it works and why it matters. dev.to/xescugc/serv... #cicd #devops #docker #golang

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Services without Docker-in-Docker: how PikoCI handles test dependencies

If you've ever needed a database for your integration tests in CI, you've probably encountered one of...

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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

PikoCI v0.6.0 is out. New pipeline views: Graph with toggles, List view with job tree and logs, Resources panel, version tracking, and resource version status dots. Also migrated the frontend from Backbone to Preact. dev.to/xescugc/piko... #cicd #devops #golang #selfhosted

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PikoCI v0.6: New pipeline views, version tracking, and goodbye Backbone

PikoCI is a self-hosted CI/CD system, one binary, any database, runs anywhere. v0.6 is the biggest UI...

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PikoCI @pikoci-dev.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Building PikoCI, a self-hosted CI/CD that runs as a single binary. Inspired by Concourse, simpler to deploy. Follow along for releases, architecture decisions, and dev updates. pikoci.com #cicd #devops #golang #selfhosted #opensource

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PikoCI — The CI/CD that grows with you

Self-hosted, portable CI/CD system. One binary, any database, runs anywhere.

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