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Installation with Docker
Gitea provides automatically updated Docker images within its Docker Hub organization. It is possible to always use the latest stable tag or to use another service that handles updating Docker images.
This reference setup guides users through the setup based on docker-compose
, but the installation
of docker-compose
is out of scope of this documentation. To install docker-compose
itself, follow
the official install instructions.
Table of Contents
{{< toc >}}
Basics
The most simple setup just creates a volume and a network and starts the gitea/gitea:latest
image as a service. Since there is no database available, one can be initialized using SQLite3.
Create a directory like gitea
and paste the following content into a file named docker-compose.yml
.
Note that the volume should be owned by the user/group with the UID/GID specified in the config file.
If you don't give the volume correct permissions, the container may not start.
Also be aware that the tag :latest
will install the current development version.
For a stable release you can use :1
or specify a certain release like :{{< version >}}
.
version: "3"
networks:
gitea:
external: false
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:{{< version >}}
container_name: gitea
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- ./gitea:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "222:22"
Ports
To bind the integrated openSSH daemon and the webserver on a different port, adjust the port section. It's common to just change the host port and keep the ports within the container like they are.
version: "3"
networks:
gitea:
external: false
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:{{< version >}}
container_name: gitea
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- ./gitea:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- - "3000:3000"
- - "222:22"
+ - "8080:3000"
+ - "2221:22"
Databases
MySQL database
To start Gitea in combination with a MySQL database, apply these changes to the
docker-compose.yml
file created above.
version: "3"
networks:
gitea:
external: false
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:{{< version >}}
container_name: gitea
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
+ - GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=mysql
+ - GITEA__database__HOST=db:3306
+ - GITEA__database__NAME=gitea
+ - GITEA__database__USER=gitea
+ - GITEA__database__PASSWD=gitea
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- ./gitea:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "222:22"
+ depends_on:
+ - db
+
+ db:
+ image: mysql:8
+ restart: always
+ environment:
+ - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=gitea
+ - MYSQL_USER=gitea
+ - MYSQL_PASSWORD=gitea
+ - MYSQL_DATABASE=gitea
+ networks:
+ - gitea
+ volumes:
+ - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
PostgreSQL database
To start Gitea in combination with a PostgreSQL database, apply these changes to
the docker-compose.yml
file created above.
version: "3"
networks:
gitea:
external: false
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:{{< version >}}
container_name: gitea
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
+ - GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=postgres
+ - GITEA__database__HOST=db:5432
+ - GITEA__database__NAME=gitea
+ - GITEA__database__USER=gitea
+ - GITEA__database__PASSWD=gitea
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- ./gitea:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "222:22"
+ depends_on:
+ - db
+
+ db:
+ image: postgres:13
+ restart: always
+ environment:
+ - POSTGRES_USER=gitea
+ - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=gitea
+ - POSTGRES_DB=gitea
+ networks:
+ - gitea
+ volumes:
+ - ./postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
Named volumes
To use named volumes instead of host volumes, define and use the named volume
within the docker-compose.yml
configuration. This change will automatically
create the required volume. You don't need to worry about permissions with
named volumes; Docker will deal with that automatically.
version: "3"
networks:
gitea:
external: false
+volumes:
+ gitea:
+ driver: local
+
services:
server:
image: gitea/gitea:{{< version >}}
container_name: gitea
restart: always
networks:
- gitea
volumes:
- - ./gitea:/data
+ - gitea:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "222:22"
MySQL or PostgreSQL containers will need to be created separately.
Startup
To start this setup based on docker-compose
, execute docker-compose up -d
,
to launch Gitea in the background. Using docker-compose ps
will show if Gitea
started properly. Logs can be viewed with docker-compose logs
.
To shut down the setup, execute docker-compose down
. This will stop
and kill the containers. The volumes will still exist.
Notice: if using a non-3000 port on http, change app.ini to match
LOCAL_ROOT_URL = http://localhost:3000/
.
Installation
After starting the Docker setup via docker-compose
, Gitea should be available using a
favorite browser to finalize the installation. Visit http://server-ip:3000 and follow the
installation wizard. If the database was started with the docker-compose
setup as
documented above, please note that db
must be used as the database hostname.
Configure the user inside Gitea using environment variables
USER
: git: The username of the user that runs Gitea within the container.USER_UID
: 1000: The UID (Unix user ID) of the user that runs Gitea within the container. Match this to the UID of the owner of the/data
volume if using host volumes (this is not necessary with named volumes).USER_GID
: 1000: The GID (Unix group ID) of the user that runs Gitea within the container. Match this to the GID of the owner of the/data
volume if using host volumes (this is not necessary with named volumes).
Customization
Customization files described here should
be placed in /data/gitea
directory. If using host volumes, it's quite easy to access these
files; for named volumes, this is done through another container or by direct access at
/var/lib/docker/volumes/gitea_gitea/_data
. The configuration file will be saved at
/data/gitea/conf/app.ini
after the installation.
Upgrading
❗❗ Make sure you have volumed data to somewhere outside Docker container ❗❗
To upgrade your installation to the latest release:
# Edit `docker-compose.yml` to update the version, if you have one specified
# Pull new images
docker-compose pull
# Start a new container, automatically removes old one
docker-compose up -d
Managing Deployments With Environment Variables
In addition to the environment variables above, any settings in app.ini
can be set or overridden with an environment variable of the form: GITEA__SECTION_NAME__KEY_NAME
. These settings are applied each time the docker container starts. Full information here.
These environment variables can be passed to the docker container in docker-compose.yml
. The following example will enable an smtp mail server if the required env variables GITEA__mailer__FROM
, GITEA__mailer__HOST
, GITEA__mailer__PASSWD
are set on the host or in a .env
file in the same directory as docker-compose.yml
:
...
services:
server:
environment:
- GITEA__mailer__ENABLED=true
- GITEA__mailer__FROM=${GITEA__mailer__FROM:?GITEA__mailer__FROM not set}
- GITEA__mailer__MAILER_TYPE=smtp
- GITEA__mailer__HOST=${GITEA__mailer__HOST:?GITEA__mailer__HOST not set}
- GITEA__mailer__IS_TLS_ENABLED=true
- GITEA__mailer__USER=${GITEA__mailer__USER:-apikey}
- GITEA__mailer__PASSWD="""${GITEA__mailer__PASSWD:?GITEA__mailer__PASSWD not set}"""
To set required TOKEN and SECRET values, consider using gitea's built-in generate utility functions.
SSH Container Passthrough
Since SSH is running inside the container, SSH needs to be passed through from the host to the container if SSH support is desired. One option would be to run the container SSH on a non-standard port (or moving the host port to a non-standard port). Another option which might be more straightforward is to forward SSH connections from the host to the container. This setup is explained in the following.
This guide assumes that you have created a user on the host called git
which shares the same UID
/ GID
as the container values USER_UID
/ USER_GID
. These values can be set as environment variables in the docker-compose.yml
:
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
Next mount /home/git/.ssh
of the host into the container. Otherwise the SSH authentication cannot work inside the container.
volumes:
- /home/git/.ssh/:/data/git/.ssh
Now a SSH key pair needs to be created on the host. This key pair will be used to authenticate the git
user on the host to the container.
sudo -u git ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "Gitea Host Key"
In the next step a file named /app/gitea/gitea
(with executable permissions) needs to be created on the host. This file will issue the SSH forwarding from the host to the container. Add the following contents to /app/gitea/gitea
:
ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no git@127.0.0.1 "SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND=\"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\" $0 $@"
To make the forwarding work, the SSH port of the container (22) needs to be mapped to the host port 2222 in docker-compose.yml
. Since this port does not need to be exposed to the outside world, it can be mapped to the localhost
of the host machine:
ports:
# [...]
- "127.0.0.1:2222:22"
In addition, /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
on the host needs to be modified. It needs to act in the same way as authorized_keys
within the Gitea container. Therefore add the public key of the key you created above ("Gitea Host Key") to ~/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
.
This can be done via echo "$(cat /home/git/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" >> /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
.
Important: The pubkey from the git
user needs to be added "as is" while all other pubkeys added via the Gitea web interface will be prefixed with command="/app [...]
.
The file should then look somewhat like
# SSH pubkey from git user
ssh-rsa <Gitea Host Key>
# other keys from users
command="/app/gitea/gitea --config=/data/gitea/conf/app.ini serv key-1",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty <user pubkey>
Here is a detailed explanation what is happening when a SSH request is made:
- A SSH request is made against the host (usually port 22) using the
git
user, e.g.git clone git@domain:user/repo.git
. - In
/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
, the command executes the/app/gitea/gitea
script. /app/gitea/gitea
forwards the SSH request to port 2222 which is mapped to the SSH port (22) of the container.- Due to the existence of the public key of the
git
user in/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
the authentication host → container succeeds and the SSH request get forwarded to Gitea running in the docker container.
If a new SSH key is added in the Gitea web interface, it will be appended to .ssh/authorized_keys
in the same way as the already existing key.
Notes
SSH container passthrough will work only if
opensshd
is used in the container- if
AuthorizedKeysCommand
is not used in combination withSSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=false
to disable authorized files key generation LOCAL_ROOT_URL
is not changed