diff --git a/.drone.sh b/.drone.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# disable CGO for cross-compiling
+export CGO_ENABLED=0
+
+export now=$(TZ=Australia/Sydney date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')
+echo $now
+echo "build commences"
+go build -ldflags "-X main.sha1ver=`git rev-parse HEAD` -X main.buildTime=$now" -o vctp cmd/api/main.go
+echo "build complete"
+sha256sum vctp > vctp_checksum.txt
+ls -lah
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diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
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+kind: pipeline
+type: docker
+name: default
+
+steps:
+- name: build
+  image: golang
+  environment:
+    CGO_ENABLED: 0
+    GOMODCACHE: '/drone/src/pkg.mod'
+    GOCACHE: '/drone/src/pkg.build'  
+  volumes:
+  - name: shared
+    path: /shared    
+  commands:
+  #- cp /shared/index.html ./www/
+  - sh ./.drone.sh
+
+- name: dell-sftp-deploy
+  image: hypervtechnics/drone-sftp
+  settings:
+    host: deft.dell.com
+    username:
+      from_secret: DELLFTP_USER
+    password:
+      from_secret: DELLFTP_PASS
+    port: 22
+    source: ./
+    filter: vctp*
+    clean: false
+    target: /
+    overwrite: true
+    verbose: true
+
+volumes:
+- name: shared
+  temp: {}
+#- name: cache
+#  host:
+#    path: /var/lib/cache    
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