What’s the better Git? // GitLab vs Gitea

[@christianlempa]

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[@Akuba]

Using Gitea on my Home server and it works flawlessly for my simple use case.

[@cowgod77]

Thanks for the comparison! I've been running GitLab for years and very happy with it, but I've always been curious about how Gitea compares, so this was right up my alley.

[@JokingChickenn]

Use forgejo

[@christianlempa]

Nice!

[@michaelkoch5483]

Renovate works just fine with Gitea in my Homelab.

[@chaasetech]

Can confirm, works great for me too.

[@codygittens8142]

I've been using it with gitea. It works a charm.

[@mf1315]

Same. Works in kubernetes and via gitea actions.

[@christianlempa]

That is true for the CLI version of Renovate, which is an alternative, of course. But it also means you have to integrate it with actions that I haven't done - yet.

[@chaasetech]

@@christianlempa You can run renovate in a docker container (scheduled w/ a cronjob or via compose) and that doesn’t require Gitea Actions at all

[@alonymous-ql3fl]

It's not which is better between GitLab and Gitea. It's that Forgejo is better than both of them.

[@JokingChickenn]

Jup, forgejo is the gitea we wanted

[@black13undertaker]

We use forgejo at work and it's a great experience. Bonus points for it still being a drop in replacement for gitea. You literally only have to swap the executable files currently, so anyone reading this should really switch while they can.

[@morax-666]

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea once Gitea was taken over by a for profit corp I like Forgejo

[@dankierson]

Informative as usual, Christian. Like yourself, I like light memory footprint packages with good adaptability to useful frameworks.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 🙏

[@jodywan3028]

For my homelab, I use GitLab self-hosted on Docker with an Omnibus package, installed simply and easily using Docker Compose.

[@s.i.m.c.a]

For managing terraform state, use semaphore... Problem with gitlab is even not consumed resources, but their omnibus and deployment via chief recipes...same as helish requirement to manually update database on version migration. So nope....

[@christianlempa]

How does semaphore manage the tfstate? Is this a new feature I'm not aware of?

[@grillo_delmal]

Both projects are OpenCore though... this kind of approach incentivizes owners on improving the pay-walled features instead of maintaining the overall project.

[@christianlempa]

I don't agree with that! To maintain a huge software project with developers that add features, you have to pay them. Big open-source software projects are mostly backed by investors or companies that sell services or additional enterprise versions to customers. And features developed for the customers are often ported into the open-source versions. If you wouldn't have that, who would develop these features? Don't be foolish and assume this is done by random people in their spare time without any compensation.

[@fvgoya]

I started with GitLab and moved to Gitea. GitLab is so heavy! With Gitea everything goes without any issues.

[@JokingChickenn]

This! Gitlab is just too bloated. And also gitlab is doing (more) wierd stuff on the company side

[@JokingChickenn]

Also: use forgejo

[@BreetaiZentradi]

@JokingChickenn I so agree. I ran gitlab at home for years on docker. I had issues with log files growing to large. Start up times of minutes. If I fell more than a point release or two behind. Updates to getlab were painful. Every time I updated something broke. I have switched to gittea and have not looked back. Created a repo named "gist" and keep my gist style note there.

[@andreas.grundler]

I prefer Gitea. It's just a single executable instead of a plethora of services with features I don't need for my use case.

[@RealDaryl]

I installed gitlab ages ago and never gave it much time. I installed gitea after your last video and gave myself a day to use it. I'm liking it so far, don't think I'll need much more, mostly storing scripts

[@christianlempa]

Nice, good to hear!

[@DavidLee-mt9gf]

how about forgejo?

[@christianlempa]

I think we need to follow this project and see how it turns out in the future

[@proxgs7703]

@@christianlempa I've heard the Fedora Linux maintainers will migrate to Forgejo.

[@michaelventarola7100]

I feel gate is a great tool for my homelab. I don't need any of the extra bells and whistles from gitlab. I get CI/CD from gitea.

[@tubeincompetence]

Can't say I have been giving it much thought or comparison between options - just that Gitea has been working well for me.

[@codeman99-dev]

I generally don't want very advanced features from my git hosting services. Therefore, soft-serve is where it's at for me.

[@SR-ti6jj]

I tried to update GitLab once

[@ivanmaglica264]

Gitea is great, but Gitea Actions are limited. You cannot run them from UI, you have to commit a change. I still use Jenkins as remote server script runner UI for all our employees.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks for sharing! I didn't try it myself, yet, but that even confirms more that I should stay at GitLab :D

[@williamzink7193]

I’m debating setting up a self hosted Git solution. Do you open this up to the internet so you can use it remotely?

[@christianlempa]

Not directly, I use a ZTNA called Twingate to log in from remote

[@quentinlemaitre2998]

Thank you, i will try to setup Gitea and Renovate as people say it’s possible. Could you make a video about deploying Komodo? I’m having a really hard time grasping their documentation.

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome. I haven't tried it yet, and it's not something I would have time for in the near future :/

[@DERWAHRECHRISU]

I would like to see a test between GitLab - GitTea - OneDev.

[@uridl01]

Forgejo > Gitea

[@tockar]

Forgejo was recently chosen as a platform for Fedora Project. This could potentially help this platform a lot!

[@JokingChickenn]

I hope forgejo will get better features now that it is a hard fork

[@steveoste5459]

I was just from watching your Gitea Video and set it up too. 😁 lemme see what Gitlab has to offer...Will be back later.

[@JokingChickenn]

Use forgejo

[@christianlempa]

Nice! :D

[@szymex22]

It's gitlab for me, I like that everything is built in and no external CI etc is needed. But it is heavy, when I didn't have a good server I used gitea because it was lighter.

[@benotisanchez5583]

The ram-usage difference is the deal breaker for me.

[@freshgrease]

I'm surprised you are running these in Docker and not Kubernetes.

[@ellerydsouza]

gitlab running in k8s in a homelab is really really hard. I tried using the non production recommended helm chart and it did not come up. Gitea and Forgejo both worked well in k8s.

[@christianlempa]

The deployment is a lot more complicated, that's why I haven't done it - yet. But I hope to get it done at some point in the future.

[@djgigabit]

Thanks Christian I feel like this video was made for me 😂

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Glad it was just right for you 😊👍

[@baseptr]

hey, what happened to my comment about scm-manager? if you deleted it, it wouldn't be fair

[@christianlempa]

Don't know what you're talking about

[@Jonas-qq7dl]

Also eigentlich bist du ja mein Systemadmin und nicht ich

[@christianlempa]

😂 ?

[@Jonas-qq7dl]

@christianlempa because you have a Tutorial for everything i need xd

[@christianlempa]

@@Jonas-qq7dl haha achso 😂 aber bitte nicht am Wochenende anrufen wenn der Server nicht geht 😜

[@v3ss0n]

Gitea all the way

[@obamna36]

i dont trust my own PC to host git repo LOL

[@christianlempa]

fair point :D

[@ewenchan1239]

With me NOT being a software developer, but I want to be able to push/pull my hosts file across multiple systems/VMs/LXCs, I have found that Gitea is VASTLY easier to use. For really basic stuff like that, GitLab would be massive overkill.