Interface reference
A separate public deployment screenshot is not used here because it would be misleading or expose account details. The official project page below is the authoritative visual reference.
Open official Gitea demo login →What Gitea is
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service written in Go. It provides repository hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, a web interface, webhook integrations and user management — essentially a private GitHub or GitLab that runs on minimal hardware with no external dependencies.
It is a community fork of Gogs, designed to be fast, easy to install and resource-efficient. A Gitea instance can run comfortably on a Raspberry Pi or an LXC container with 512MB of RAM.
Why I run it
I run Gitea as the central repository for all my infrastructure code: Ansible playbooks, shell scripts, Docker Compose files, configuration backups and documentation. Having version control for infrastructure means I can track every change I make, roll back mistakes, and keep a clear history of what was deployed and when.
It also means my infrastructure code never leaves my network — unlike pushing to GitHub, everything stays on my own hardware behind Tailscale.
Docker Compose
services:
gitea:
image: gitea/gitea:latest
container_name: gitea
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "2222:22"
volumes:
- ./data:/data
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
- TZ=Europe/LondonWhat this gives you
Private, version-controlled infrastructure code with a web interface, issue tracking and SSH access — all running on minimal resources with no external service dependency. Every Ansible playbook, every script, every configuration file has a clear history.