I’ve started building a small decentralized, non commercial app with a Rust backend + Node.js frontend running on k8s. I would have my own dedicated server for this. Just mentioning the setup because it might grow and for git there seem to be only GitHub and GitLab around and I prefer GitLab.

I care a lot about security and was wondering if it makes sense to self-host GitLab. I‘m not afraid of doing it, but after setup it shouldn’t take more than 1-2 hours per week for me to maintain it in the long run and I’m wondering if that’s realistic.

Would love to hear about the experience of people who did what I’m planning to do.

EDIT: Thanks for all the answers, trying my best to reply. I want CI/CD, container registry and secrets management that’s what I was hoping to get out of GitLab.

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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.

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The is also Codeberg

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technically the same as forgejo, codeberg is the main forgejo contributor/the org owning it

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Oh! Is it?

Well, living and learning haha

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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?

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I’d also like to add that Forgejo is working on federation along with GitLab. I think Forgejo will do it first though.

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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.

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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.

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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

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