Gitea and Git that stays close to home

What Gitea offers for self-hosted Git, how it pairs with CI and Portainer, and why small instances still deserve grown-up hygiene.

Gitea is a lightweight forge: issues, pull requests, and Git hosting without renting the center of gravity from someone else’s platform. For teams that want ownership—code, backups, and access policies under their roof—it is a pragmatic choice.

What changes when Git is local

You still need branching discipline and reviews. What you gain is control over retention, webhooks to internal automation, and fewer surprises when an upstream policy shifts.

The project documentation at docs.gitea.com is the right place to compare authentication modes, backup paths, and upgrade notes—especially before you wire CI tokens.

A sane pairing

Gitea likes a boring backup and a boring reverse proxy. Glamour is optional; reliability is not.