Setting up a Gitea code hosting platform

forked from: https://git.theo-andreou.org/Personal/ansible-deploy-gitea

Gitea is a self-hosted Git-based Code Hosting Platform and a nice alternative to Github and other proprietary services. You can use this Ansible Playbook to host your own Code Hosting Platform under your own control.

This setup offers:

• Gitea
• MariaDB backend
• Nginx reverse proxy
• Fail2Ban Gitea protection
• HTTPS by Let's Encrypt
• SSH on a custom port 4444

Prerequisites

• A Debian or Ubuntu machine.
• A publicly available FQDN:

git.cerveau.us.	300	IN	A	1.2.3.4

Deploy gitea

Clone the repository:

$ git clone http://www.github.com/agonzal/ansible-deploy-gitea.git
$ cd ansible-deploy-gitea

Prepare a vars/all.yml file (you can use vars/all.yml.example as reference):

# vars/all.yml
gitea_fqdn: git.cerveau.us
gitea_db: gitea
gitea_db_user: gitea
gitea_version: 1.12.4

Adjusts the host(s) in deploy_gitea.yml as well as other changes (email in cert config, etc..) and run the Playbook:

$ ansible-playbook deploy_gitea.yml

When done rush to https://git.cerveau.us. First one to create an account gets to be an admin!

Check out [Installing Gitea on Ubuntu][http://agonzal.github.io/2020/installing-gitea/] for some more post-install config changes to gitea for more lockdown control.

References

• https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-binary/
• https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/linux-service/
• https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.12.4/
• https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/fail2ban-setup/