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Gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration,…

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Last commit19 Oct 2026
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Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD.

Who it suits

  • Teams: Gitea says its interface “makes it easy for teams to collaborate and manage code projects”.

From gitea.com, checked 19 Oct 2026. Quotes are the project's own words.

Switching from GitHub

Your data: Gitea has a built-in migration form for GitHub repositories.

  1. Sign in to your Gitea instance and open its built-in migration form for GitHub.
  2. Enter the repository to migrate. To bring issues, pull requests and similar items too, enter at least your GitHub username.

Watch out for:

  • For GitLab, Gitea's docs point to a separate, non-affiliated tool.

Sources: docs.gitea.com/usage/repository/migration, checked 19 Oct 2026.

Self-hosting requirements

Runs withGo, Docker, Kubernetes
DockerYes
awesome-selfhosted lists Docker as a way to deploy it.

Sources: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/software/gitea.yml, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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