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For self hosting there is also https://forgejo.org/ which is a fork of https://about.gitea.com/ , the latter of which started to shift to a corporate model.
Previous Gitea user and now Forgejo, and yeah it's a great git server. Simple, lightweight but still very capable.
Another upvote for forgeo. So easy to get set up and running. Can run it in docker itself. I tried to host gitlab and got so frustrated with the pages and pages of ruby configs. Forgejo is so much cleaner.
The is also Codeberg
technically the same as forgejo, codeberg is the main forgejo contributor/the org owning it
Oh! Is it?
Well, living and learning haha
Quick question: forgejo is the git program that you can install self host a git server, while codeberg is probably the biggest forgejo-kind git server that is open to the public, right?
I dont have a home server to host forgejo (yet?), so I'm thinking of making an account on codeberg, is that correct reasoning?
Oh thank you for the detailed answer😄
I think codeberg is for me in my case. (Btw, I barely know git, I'm gonna read a guide today.) I really like foss, so I will probably create foss stuff.
I really want to make a nas in the future, so I might host my own forgejo instance locally and possibly keep a backup on a cloud storage provider (bought 2tb lifetime on filen). I have somewhat big plans for my nas, but I don't know what I'll eventually do😆
So far I barely use git, so I probably dont need to rent a cloud server. Thanks again though:)
Yeah, (among others) I really want to learn git to sync dotfiles and the nixos configs
Pretty much yes, codeberg integrates some additional services and branding on top (such as codeberg-pages for static page hosting or forgejo-runners for CI) but you can integrate those yourself as well, it's just extra work.
If you're looking for an open alternative to github/gitlab codeberg is imo definitely the way to go
Yo thank youu:)
I did an inplace upgrade of gitea to forgejo. No issues.
I've been self hosting this for 2 or 3 years now.
There has been zero maintenance other than the occasional update button
I use it for my docker compose files that portainer pulls from with the click of the button to update my containers when needed.
I edit the files in VS code with the git plugin and it works without issue
Thanks! This looks actually really interesting. Did you try doing CI/CD with it? In future I would probably collaborate with others who'd be also using my self-hosted Git. What would be critical for me is that I can set it up in a way that once I open a PR that branch automatically gets deployed to a dev Kubernetes environment and when I merge with main that it automatically deploys to staging and only when I release a tag the branch would end up in prod. Also I'd like to do secrets management over the platform. I like that Forgejo would be non-commercial and I would prefer it over GitLab if it can do these things well.
I'd also like to add that Forgejo is working on federation along with GitLab. I think Forgejo will do it first though.