Gitea

Description / name	Input element
Container Registry
Container Configuration Root Path
Timezone
User ID
Group ID
Gitea Host Port
Gitea /config Path

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


Port	`3000`
Registry	`ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea`
Daemonless	daemonless/gitea
Source	go-gitea/gitea
Website	about.gitea.com

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
`latest`	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users — recommended.
`pkg`	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
`pkg-latest`	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions, including the security model for host vs. container privileges.

Deployment

Podman AppJail Bastille

Compose CLI Ansible

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"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

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

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

- 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"

Save as gitea-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook gitea-deploy.yaml.

Warning

Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the jail's IPv4 address or hostname assigned by the virtual network.

Director CLI

# .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: 'args:--pull'
      - expose: '3000:3000 proto:tcp'
      - expose: '2222:22 proto:tcp'
    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_PATH: /config
volumes:
  GITEA_CONFIG_PATH:
    device: '/path/to/containers/gitea'

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

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

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="3000:3000 proto:tcp" \
  -o expose="2222:22 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e SSH_PORT=2222 \
  -e SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22 \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/gitea /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest gitea

Save the files above, then run sh run.sh.

Experimental

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah and shares the host network stack (inherit). Mount volumes with --volume HOST JAIL; without it, image-declared volumes are stored under ${bastille_volumesdir}/${jail}.

Compose CLI

services:
  gitea:
    name: gitea
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest"
    network:
      - mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
      - SSH_PORT=2222
      - SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/gitea:/config"

Save as bastille-compose.yml, then run bastille up.

bastille create -O \
  --env PUID=1000 \
  --env PGID=1000 \
  --env TZ=UTC \
  --env SSH_PORT=2222 \
  --env SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22 \
  --volume /path/to/containers/gitea /config \
  gitea ghcr.io/daemonless/gitea:latest inherit

Access at: http://localhost:3000

Interactive Configuration

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.

Implementation Details

Architectures: amd64
User: bsd (UID/GID set via PUID/PGID). Defaults to 1000:1000.
Base: Built on ghcr.io/daemonless/base (FreeBSD 15.1).

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