How to install Gitea on a Cloud VPS

Gitea is a painless self-hosted Git service: repositories, pull requests, issues and CI integration in a single lightweight binary.

Self-hosting your development tools keeps code and project data inside your infrastructure, and the cost does not grow with the number of users.

One-click install on cloudlinux.ro

The fastest way: Gitea installs automatically at the first boot of a new server.

1. Create a Cloud VPS from the control panel.
2. In the configuration step, pick Gitea from the app catalog.
3. Start the server. The install runs in the background for a few minutes and its status shows on the server page.
4. Access details and generated passwords are saved on the server in /root/app-credentials.txt. The app will be available on port 3000.

Manual install on any Ubuntu server

If you prefer doing it yourself, below is the exact script our automatic install runs. Execute it as root on a fresh Ubuntu server (24.04 recommended). It stops at the first error, and when it finishes you will find the access details in /root/app-credentials.txt.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh
docker volume create gitea_data
docker run -d --name gitea --restart=always -p 3000:3000 -p 2222:22 \
  -v gitea_data:/data gitea/gitea:latest
IP=$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')
printf 'Gitea: http://%s:3000\nFinalizeaza instalarea la prima accesare (SQLite este suficient). SSH pentru git: portul 2222.\n' "$IP" > /root/app-credentials.txt

You can also save this script as a recipe in your account and reuse it on any new server.