Self-host Gitea

A lightweight, self-hosted Git service with pull requests, issues, and a CI runner — a fast GitHub alternative that runs comfortably on a small box.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 512 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install with Docker Compose

Save this as compose.yml and run docker compose up -d:

copy# Gitea (SQLite — simplest single-container setup)
services:
  gitea:
    image: gitea/gitea:1
    ports: ["3000:3000", "222:22"]
    volumes: ["./data:/data"]
# docker compose up -d  →  http://SERVER_IP:3000