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# blacka.com gitea service
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This repo consists of some deployment files for running [gitea](https://gitea.io/en-us/), a Go-based git repository manager (think a Go-based simple github.com-like service.)
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The idea here is to host a git repository and project management system, only because it is somewhat easy to do so, and this is better than just using [gitweb](https://blacka.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi).
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## Overview
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This runs the actual application via a docker image published by the [gitea](https://hub.docker.com/r/gitea/gitea) project. However, we do need some integration with the host in order to run. The basic problems that we need to solve are:
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1. How do we get our main Apache-based web server to get us to the internal web server that the docker image runs? We use Apache's `mod_proxy` for that.
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2. How do we get SSH pushes/pulls to work. Ideally, one would be able to use a git url like `git@blacka.com/davidb/docker_gitea.git`. But to do that, we first need the host itself (zeke) to handle an ssh-session as `git`.
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The `gitea` documentation talks about using `docker-compose`, so we will basically do that. Although, `docker-compose` itself (a python program not really maintained by the Docker project) is mostly gone, `docker compose` (with a space) now works with a normal `docker-ce-cli` install.
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## Deployment Artifacts
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Currently we have
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* A `docker-compose` (`docker<space>compose`?) file, mostly copied from the documentation.
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* A `systemd` unit file, based on an example of how to run docker-compose via `systemd` (basically just have it launch `docker compose up -d` and then walk away.)
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* A snippet of `httpd.conf` config for setting up the `mod_proxy` settings.
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* A `setup.sh` shell script.
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## Deployment
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Run `setup.sh` as root. That will
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1. Create the `git:gitea` user, with a home directory of `/var/lib/gitea`.
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2. Create the `/var/lib/gitea/data` and `~/.ssh` directories
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3. Write out a `docker-shell` to use as the shell for the `git:gitea` user we just created. This will `docker exec` into the `gitea` image, effectively proxying ssh commands into the container. In theory we can just ssh into the container from the outside, but we would have configure an authorized_key that wasn't for a user.
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Next get the container running:
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1. Copy the `docker-compose.yaml` file to `/var/lib/gitea`.
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2. Copy the `docker.gitea.service` to `/etc/systemd/system`.
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3. Activate the service:
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```bash
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systemctl enable docker.gitea.service
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systemctl start docker.gitea.service
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```
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We can check to see if the container is running with `docker container ls`
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Finally, get the webserver configured and reloaded:
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1. Update the apache configuration with the `mod_proxy` config. Note that the gitea container doesn't really care *where* you mount the proxy URL. I'm putting it at <https://blacka.com/git>, myself.
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2. Check that the config you just added won't break Apache, and reload if it looks OK
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```bash
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sudo -s # become root
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apachectl
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# if that is OK, we can activate it
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systemctl reload httpd.service
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```
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If we don't have any existing config, then the first registered user will be the admin. We might have to disable the `REQUIRE_MANUAL_CONFIRM` setting -- I haven't tried that order.
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