r/Gitea

Hello! I have been trying to setup my own gitea server on a digital ocean droplet and I followed the path of installing gitea via docker - however I ran into a hiccup im not sure which way to go about this? The guide on the gitea site is telling me to finish up the installation using a webbrowser to http://server-ip:3000/ - however I don't have a desktop environment on my server. Should I install a desktop environment or is there another way I can go about this. If I do install a DE, i probably will want the most lightweight one, if you have any recommendations which I should pick, let me know.

Gitea is by far my favorite service I run. I run about 45 services on my proxmox cluster. I don’t work in tech just a stupid huge nerd/fan. I use it to document commands with flags, uses, real world examples. I debug once then document it in gitea with a great format of root cause, what I did that didn’t work, time spent, what I learned, time debugging and how much time I’ll save next time.
I have my dot files for my cluster, scripts I’ve wrote, all compose.yaml files for any service I try out. Full study guides, brainstorming ideas, docker commands, git commands, python, bash, go syntax (my go is very basic).
I almost like when I see a kernel panic exit code=0000007. I almost like breaking stuff so I can learn more. Books don’t teach that stuff. I’m building a 4 node k3s cluster and want to use gitea as my source of truth. A full ci/cd pipeline. And the crazy part is, I’m about 14 months from ZERO cli experience. And I just can’t get enough. I break stuff on purpose just to try to debug it.

Sorry for the long post but how do you guys use Gitea? And maybe a little help with GitOps with Gitea. Oh haters not welcome!! Lol