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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.
For a stable release you can use :latest
, :1
or specify a certain release like :{{< version >}}
, but if you'd like to use the latest development version of Gitea then you could use the :dev
tag. If you'd like to run the latest commit from a release branch you can use the :1.x-dev
tag, where x is the minor version of Gitea. (e.g. :1.16-dev
)
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.
There are multiple ways of doing this - however, all of these require some information about the docker being passed to the host.
SSHing Shim (with authorized_keys)
The idea of this option is to use (essentially unchanged) the authorized_keys that gitea creates on the docker and simply shim the gitea binary the docker would use on the host to instead ssh into the docker ssh.
-
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 thelocalhost
of the host machine:ports: # [...] - "127.0.0.1:2222:22"
-
Next on the host create the
git
user which shares the sameUID
/GID
as the container valuesUSER_UID
/USER_GID
. These values can be set as environment variables in thedocker-compose.yml
:environment: - USER_UID=1000 - USER_GID=1000
-
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"
-
Please note depending on the local version of ssh you may want to consider using
-t ecdsa
here. -
/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
on the host now needs to be modified. It needs to act in the same way asauthorized_keys
within the Gitea container. Therefore add the public key of the key you created above ("Gitea Host Key") to~/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
.echo "$(cat /home/git/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" >> /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
Important: The pubkey from the
git
user needs to be added "as is" while all other pubkeys added via the Gitea web interface will be prefixed withcommand="/usr [...]
./home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
should then look somewhat like# SSH pubkey from git user ssh-rsa <Gitea Host Key> # other keys from users command="/usr/local/bin/gitea --config=/data/gitea/conf/app.ini serv key-1",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty <user pubkey>
-
The next step is to create the file that will issue the SSH forwarding from the host to the container. The name of this file depends on your version of Gitea:
-
For Gitea v1.16.0+:
cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/gitea #!/bin/sh ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no git@127.0.0.1 "SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND=\"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\" $0 $@" EOF chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitea
-
For Gitea v1.15.x and earlier
cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee /app/gitea/gitea #!/bin/sh ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no git@127.0.0.1 "SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND=\"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\" $0 $@" EOF sudo chmod +x /app/gitea/gitea
-
Here is a detailed explanation what is happening when a SSH request is made:
- A SSH request is made against the host (usually port 22) using the
git
user, e.g.git clone git@domain:user/repo.git
. - In
/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
, the command executes the/usr/local/bin/gitea
script. /usr/local/bin/gitea
forwards the SSH request to port 2222 which is mapped to the SSH port (ssh 22) of the container.- Due to the existence of the public key of the
git
user in/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
the authentication host → container succeeds and the SSH request get forwarded to Gitea running in the docker container.
If a new SSH key is added in the Gitea web interface, it will be appended to .ssh/authorized_keys
in the same way as the already existing key.
Notes
SSH container passthrough using authorized_keys
will work only if
opensshd
is used in the container- if
AuthorizedKeysCommand
is not used in combination withSSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=false
to disable authorized files key generation LOCAL_ROOT_URL
is not changed (depending on the changes)
SSHing Shell (with authorized_keys)
The idea of this option is to use (essentially unchanged) the authorized_keys that gitea creates on the docker and use a special shell for git user that uses ssh to shell to the docker git user.
-
In this case we setup as above except instead of creating
/usr/local/bin/gitea
or/app/gitea/gitea
we create a new shell for the git user:cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee /home/git/ssh-shell #!/bin/sh shift ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no git@127.0.0.1 "SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND=\"$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\" $@" EOF sudo chmod +x /home/git/ssh-shell sudo usermod -s /home/git/ssh-shell git
Be careful here - if you try to login as the git user in future you will ssh directly to the docker.
Here is a detailed explanation what is happening when a SSH request is made:
- A SSH request is made against the host (usually port 22) using the
git
user, e.g.git clone git@domain:user/repo.git
. - In
/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
, the command in the command portion is passed to thessh-shell
script ssh-shell
forwards the SSH request to port 2222 overriding whi is mapped to the SSH port (ssh 22) of the container.- Due to the existence of the public key of the
git
user in/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
the authentication host → container succeeds and the SSH request get forwarded to Gitea running in the docker container.
If a new SSH key is added in the Gitea web interface, it will be appended to .ssh/authorized_keys
in the same way as the already existing key.
Notes
SSH container passthrough using authorized_keys
will work only if
opensshd
is used in the container- if
AuthorizedKeysCommand
is not used in combination withSSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=false
to disable authorized files key generation LOCAL_ROOT_URL
is not changed (depending on the changes)
Docker Shell (with authorized_keys)
Similar to the above ssh shell technique we can use a shell which simply uses docker exec
:
cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee /home/git/docker-shell
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/docker exec -i --env SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND="$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" gitea sh "$@"
EOF
sudo chmod +x /home/git/docker-shell
sudo usermod -s /home/git/docker-shell git
Note that gitea
in the docker command above is the name of the container. If you named yours differently, don't forget to change that. The git
user also have to have
permission to run docker exec
.
Notes
Docker shell passthrough using authorized_keys
will work only if
opensshd
is used in the container- if
AuthorizedKeysCommand
is not used in combination withSSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=false
to disable authorized files key generation LOCAL_ROOT_URL
is not changed (depending on the changes)
A Docker execing shim could be created similarly to above.
Docker Shell with AuthorizedKeysCommand
The AuthorizedKeysCommand route provides another option that does not require many changes to the compose file or the authorized_keys
- but does require changes to the host /etc/sshd_config
.
-
On the host create called
git
with permission to rundocker exec
. -
We will again assume that the Gitea container is called
gitea
. -
Modify the
git
user's shell to forward commands to thesh
executable inside the container usingdocker exec
as previously described:cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee /home/git/docker-shell #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/docker exec -i --env SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND="$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" gitea sh "$@" EOF sudo chmod +x /home/git/docker-shell sudo usermod -s /home/git/docker-shell git
Now all attempts to login as the git
user will be forwarded to the docker - including the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
. We now need to set-up SSH authenitication on the host.
We will do this by leveraging the SSH AuthorizedKeysCommand to match the keys against those accepted by Gitea.
Add the following block to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
, on the host:
Match User git
AuthorizedKeysCommandUser git
AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/bin/docker exec -i gitea /usr/local/bin/gitea keys -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini -e git -u %u -t %t -k %k
(From 1.16.0 you will not need to set the -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini
option.)
Finally restart the SSH server:
sudo systemctl restart sshd
Notes
Docker shell passthrough using AuthorizedKeysCommand
will work only if
- The host
git
user is allowed to run thedocker exec
command.
A Docker execing shim could be created similarly to above.
SSH Shell with AuthorizedKeysCommand
Create a key for the host git
user as above, add it to the docker /data/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
then finally create and set the ssh-shell
as above.
Add the following block to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
, on the host:
Match User git
AuthorizedKeysCommandUser git
AuthorizedKeysCommand ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no git@127.0.0.1 /usr/local/bin/gitea keys -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini -e git -u %u -t %t -k %k
(From 1.16.0 you will not need to set the -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini
option.)
Finally restart the SSH server:
sudo systemctl restart sshd
Notes
SSH container passthrough using AuthorizedKeysCommand
will work only if
opensshd
is running on the container
SSHing shims could be created similarly to above.