To quickly tryout Drone we have a [Docker image](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/drone/drone/) that includes everything you need to get started. Simply run the commend below, substituted with your GitHub credentials:
Drone uses environment variables for runtime settings and configuration, such as GitHub, GitLab, plugins and more. These settings can be provided to Docker using `--env` command as seen above.
Running Drone inside Docker is recommended but by no means required. Drone compiles to a single binary file with zero dependencies. To simplify support, however, we no longer ship a binary distribution and encourage everyone to run Drone inside Docker.