GITEA (Self-Hosted Git Platform)

This blog describes the Gitea deployment on Kubernetes.

Gitea is a self-hosted, open-source git service that provides a lightweight,easy-to-use platform for managing git repositories.

With this idea, we can be the owner of our git service.

Gitea supports various databases like mysqlite, PostgreSQL, and mysqlite3. It has an inbuilt database which is mysqlite3.

You can use an external database of your choice as well by configuring some Environment parameters.

Key features of Gitea:

1)User-friendly-interface

2)Lightweight and fast

3)Self-Hosted solution

4)Repository management

Steps for the deployment of Gitea on a Kubernetes Cluster.

Step:1

-> Create a Statefulset as below. Here we are adding the PersistentVolume.So that even if the pod is deleted the data will remain the same.

-> Depending on the storage you can change the replica count. if you use a storage that supports RWM then you can increase the replica count.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  labels:
    app: gitea
  name: gitea
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: gitea
  serviceName: gitea
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: gitea
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: gitea/gitea:latest
        name: gitea
        volumeMounts:
          - mountPath: "/data"
            name: gitea-pvc
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000
  volumeClaimTemplates:  # Add the volumeClaimTemplates section
  - metadata:
      name: gitea-pvc
    spec:
      accessModes:
        - ReadWriteOnce
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: 1Gi

Step:2

Create a service. yaml to expose the service as Nodeport.

Service. yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: gitea
  labels:
    app: gitea
spec:
  ports:
    - port: 3000
      name: web
  clusterIP:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    app: gitea

The deployment is done..!!! You can access the GUI and register yourself and create your repositories.

\=> If you want to use some external database of your choice then you need to configure the below parameters in the stateful set.yaml

env:
            - name: DB_HOST
              value: 'postgresql:port'
            - name: SKIP_TLS_VERIFICATION
              value: 'true'
            - name: GITEA_SERVICE_DB_URL
              value: 'postgresql:port/gitea'
            - name: DB_USER
              value: 'gitea'
            - name: DB_PORT
              value: 'port'
            - name: DB_TYPE
              value: 'postgres'