Gitea

Lightweight self-hosted Git service — a community managed fork of Gogs written in Go.

Port	3000
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea
Source	https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
Website	https://about.gitea.com/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest / pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Newest FreeBSD packages.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  gitea:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest"
    container_name: gitea
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - SSH_PORT=2222  # Published port for sshd (used in clone URLs)
      - SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22  # Port on which sshd listens inside the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/gitea:/config"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
      - "2222:22"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=gitea
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC
SSH_PORT=2222
SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22

appjail-director.yml:

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  gitea:
    name: gitea
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
        - SSH_PORT: !ENV '${SSH_PORT}'
        - SSH_LISTEN_PORT: !ENV '${SSH_LISTEN_PORT}'
    volumes:
      - gitea: /config
volumes:
  gitea:
    device: '/path/to/containers/gitea'

Makejail:

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:${tag}

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name gitea \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -p 2222:22 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e SSH_PORT=2222 \
  -e SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22 \
  -v /path/to/containers/gitea:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest

Ansible

- name: Deploy gitea
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: gitea
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      SSH_PORT: "2222"
      SSH_LISTEN_PORT: "22"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
      - "2222:22"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/gitea:/config"

Access at: http://localhost:3000

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container
SSH_PORT	2222	Published port for sshd (used in clone URLs)
SSH_LISTEN_PORT	22	Port on which sshd listens inside the container

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration, repositories, and data directory

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
3000	TCP	Web UI
22	TCP	SSH port

First run

If no configuration file exists when the container starts, it will generate an initial default config file at /config/custom/conf/app.ini. You can make configuration changes in this file later (e.g. SMTP configuration) and they will be preserved across container restarts.

SSH Setup

If you modify the port mapping from the default 2222:22 you need to update the 2 environment variables described below accordingly.

SSH_LISTEN_PORT env var

This variable indicates on which port Gitea's ssh server listens inside the container. If your port mapping for ssh is 2222:22, this variable should be set to 22. This variable is used on every container start to modify the Gitea configuration.

SSH_PORT env var

This variable tells Gitea on which port the ssh server is reachable from the outside and is used when constructing the ssh URLs shown in Gitea's web UI. If your port mapping for ssh is 2222:22, this variable should be set to 2222. This variable is used only during the first container startup to create the initial configuration file for Gitea. If you want to modify the SSH_PORT later, you need to change the configuration in the [server] section of /config/custom/conf/app.ini.

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.0

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