I’m looking for a self-hosted GitHub alternative that I can just plop into Portainer as a docker-compose and get working.
My main interest is in something that sort of works with GitHub - if there’s a way I can pull repos from GitHub into this self-hosted git using a webUI and maybe even push my changes to repos on GitHub, that would be nice. I’m not hard-and-fast on this though as this is mostly an experiment right now and I don’t know why I need this.
What are you folks using to host your super secret local code and why?
And is hilariously overkill for what OP seems to want. It’s a pretty large and heavy package that comes with a whole lot of (for OP unnecessary) features.
My experience was that they were definitely overkill until they weren’t, and I was glad to be comfortable in the UI when I wanted to start playing with more advanced features. Something like the sameersbn/gitlab docker image can get you started and grow with you a ton.
Yeah, I don‘t know if they have finally anounced it officially, but they mentioned it in their blog post in March. I‘ve installed it, and it works quite well for my usecase.
I also recommend forgejo, I’ve been using it for a while for my personal projects and the ui is still beautiful while being a simple git server at the same time.
And forgejo runner is basically github actions, I just started automating a lot of my personal projects.
(it’s in alpha state, but my basic actions haven’t had any problems)
I personally use gitea but there is also a community version of gitlab that has way more power than I need.
Gitea can import a repo from GitHub but I don’t know whether it can also push updates out as one never tried to do that.
I picked gitea as I didn’t need all of the extra power of gitlab and they were the first two options I found. I don’t deploy it using portainer but all of my stacks are set up as git repos in portainer and using the webhook feature it’ll auto pull and redeploy whenever I push to it
Heh, I was running linux with docker on top of Trunas for several months because of Jellyfin was not available to run in jail. I was not happy because it wasted the server resources and also my resources to maintain it. I don’t want go such way again.
Happy running gitea in jail and when forgejo will be also available in jail I will probably move to its.
Why instead of gitea though? I thought the “for profit” stuff was only to provide the original developers of gitea the ability to provide paid support to commercial clients.
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Forgejo. Gitlab will be overkill probably.
gitlab can be selfhosted
And is hilariously overkill for what OP seems to want. It’s a pretty large and heavy package that comes with a whole lot of (for OP unnecessary) features.
My experience was that they were definitely overkill until they weren’t, and I was glad to be comfortable in the UI when I wanted to start playing with more advanced features. Something like the sameersbn/gitlab docker image can get you started and grow with you a ton.
GitLab or GitTea
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I’ve been using Soft Serve on my server. Just a git server with terminal UI and easy to manage.
Gogs and Gitea are git alternatives that offers GitLab features with less system resource demands.
Though, it would be good to understand your use case, whereby a GitHub private repository would not be suitable…
It now also comes with Gitea Actions and the Act Runner - in case this feature is relevant to you.
Wow, no one till now mentioned Gitea has a runner and actions. Thanks!
Yeah, I don‘t know if they have finally anounced it officially, but they mentioned it in their blog post in March. I‘ve installed it, and it works quite well for my usecase.
onedev.io wasn’t mentioned.
Also, be aware that gitea was forked by the community into forgejo because of reasons.
I have liked onedev so far.
Have a look at Forgejo which is a soft fork run by a nonprofit organization of Gitea which is owned by a for-profit company.
https://forgejo.org/
It need very little system resources and still gives you all the common features you know from commercial Git hosting providers.
And yes, you can mirror existing Git repos using a web UI.
I also recommend forgejo, I’ve been using it for a while for my personal projects and the ui is still beautiful while being a simple git server at the same time.
I also recommend forgejo. They are also working on adding a federation feature to forgejo just like Lemmy has!
It’s coming to Gitlab too! (although, this will take quite some time)
What does federation do here? Will it sync repos? Or just users and comments?
I imagine users, comments and perhaps pull requests.
And forgejo runner is basically github actions, I just started automating a lot of my personal projects. (it’s in alpha state, but my basic actions haven’t had any problems)
https://about.gitea.com/ is a great lightweight alternative that’s heavily inspired by GitHub.
I self-host Gitea and is pretty lightweight and low maintenance. Great solution!
I’m using Gitea. Pretty simple and a decent feature set.
https://forgejo.org/
+1 For Gitea. Works really well for me. It recently added GitHub style actors so you can use GitHub style CI/CD too!
I personally use gitea but there is also a community version of gitlab that has way more power than I need.
Gitea can import a repo from GitHub but I don’t know whether it can also push updates out as one never tried to do that.
I picked gitea as I didn’t need all of the extra power of gitlab and they were the first two options I found. I don’t deploy it using portainer but all of my stacks are set up as git repos in portainer and using the webhook feature it’ll auto pull and redeploy whenever I push to it
I’m using GItea and it’s been working great. Very easy to set up in docker.
Forgejo
Unfortunately not available on TrueNAS
Everything is you just must first learn docker
Heh, I was running linux with docker on top of Trunas for several months because of Jellyfin was not available to run in jail. I was not happy because it wasted the server resources and also my resources to maintain it. I don’t want go such way again.
Happy running gitea in jail and when forgejo will be also available in jail I will probably move to its.
Why instead of gitea though? I thought the “for profit” stuff was only to provide the original developers of gitea the ability to provide paid support to commercial clients.
I’d probably just run gitlab and use the gitlab images, as that’s one of the solutions git recommends
Another +1 for gitea. It works quite well and is easy to setup.