Gitea

If you’re running any homelab automation at all, sooner or later you end up wanting a place to put your own code, Ansible playbooks, docker-compose files, a scheduled content pipeline, whatever you’ve cobbled together, that isn’t a public GitHub repo and isn’t subject to GitHub’s own uptime, rate limits, or terms of service. Self-hosting a git server used to mean a lot of manual setup. Now it means picking between a handful of mature, actively developed options that install in minutes. The three worth actually considering are Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab Community Edition, and they are not equally good fits for the same job. ...