Gitea Has a Free Self-Hosted Git Platform — Lightweight GitHub Alternative

Gitea is a painless, self-hosted Git service — think GitHub but on your own server. What You Get for Free Git hosting — repositories, branches, tags, releases Issue tracking — labels, milestones, projects, kanban boards Pull requests — code review, merge strategies, CI status checks CI/CD — Gitea Actions (GitHub Actions compatible!) Package registry — npm, PyPI, Docker, Maven, NuGet, and more Wiki — per-repository documentation Organizations & teams — fine-grained access control Webhooks & API — full REST and GraphQL APIs Quick Start # Docker (easiest) docker run -d --name gitea -p 3000:3000 -p 2222:22 \ -v gitea-data:/data gitea/gitea:latest # Or binary (single file, ~100MB) wget -O gitea https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/latest/gitea-linux-amd64 chmod +x gitea && ./gitea web Why Developers Choose It GitHub is great but not everyone can use cloud Git (compliance, air-gapped networks, cost): Single binary — easier than GitLab (which needs 4GB+ RAM) GitHub Actions compatible — reuse existing w