Folks,
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?
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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.
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. They are also working on adding a federation feature to forgejo just like Lemmy has!
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)
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.
What? Gitea. Gitlab is a complete devops platform. Awesome, but complete overkill.
Why? Because I regularly commit code atrocities and have a hard enough time dealing with imposter syndrome, I don’t need to add public shaming on top of it (And just data sovereignty I guess)
Gitlab can be registration only, so noone else can see your code crimes (when self-hosted)
If people could see my code crimes, I would be in code jail for life.
I’m sure I’ve committed many code crimes. But the one that should send someone to jail that I’ve personally seen was when I found an eval in production code that was actively being exploited. Put up a PR to fix it and was given a very hush hush meeting that it was there intentionally to fix production data issues secretly because the bureaucracy made it hard to do lol. I just kept my mouth shut and eventually used it once myself.
I’m using GItea and it’s been working great. Very easy to set up in docker.
Forgejo
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.
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.
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.
What are you folks using to host your super secret local code and why?
This obviously doesn’t help for the rest of your question, but for anything that I don’t want to open source for whatever reason, I just make a bare repo and push it to a folder on my server that has all my bare repos. Literally just git server on my LAN. Nothing fancy. No UI or anything, but I don’t use a UI for git anyway.
If you don’t have a server at home, you could do the same thing but to a folder on your local machine. That obviously means you will have no backup. But you will still have version control in case you want to revert something you did or refer back to an old version.
Gitlab can do what you need
That’s a pretty hefty solution. Gitlab is a monster nowadays…
GOGS, Gitea/Forgejo can do 90% of what Gitlab does and are much lighter.
I currently use GitLab, but if I were doing things from the start I’d go with Gitea or Forgejo since its lighter. Though I do quite like GitLab CI (which is why I didn’t go with the other initially) but these days I hear Gitea has Actions support built in.
I’m in the same boat. GitLab CI is so nice that I still host it, even if everything else is overkill.
Gitlab also has issues, error tracking via sentry and much more. If you want only something nice to host your code go with Gitea, if you also want to manage your project or do auto releases, use gitlab.
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
Forgejo. Gitlab will be overkill probably.
+1 For Gitea. Works really well for me. It recently added GitHub style actors so you can use GitHub style CI/CD too!
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.
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!
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.
Another +1 for gitea. It works quite well and is easy to setup.
