Gitea Helm chart

Gitea is a lightweight GitHub clone. This is for those who wish to self host their own git repos on kubernetes.

Introduction

This is a kubernetes helm chart for Gitea. It deploys a pod containing containers for the Gitea application along with a Postgresql db for storing application state. It can create peristent volume claims if desired, and also an ingress if the kubernetes cluster supports it.

This chart should work works on current supported versions of kubernetes. It is always in active use on the latest kubernetes and sync'd to the latest gitea release to stay current.

Currently the chart supports helm 3 only.

Prerequisites

• A kubernetes cluster ( most recent release recommended)
• helm client and tiller installed on the cluster
• Please ensure that nodepools have enough resources to run both a web application and database
• An external database if not using the in pod database

Installing the Chart

This chart is published in keyporttech/charts. To install the chart, first add the keyporttech helm repo:

helm repo add keyporttech https://keyporttech.github.io/helm-charts/

Then to install with the release name gitea in the namespace gittea with the customized values in custom_values.yaml run:

$ helm install -- values custom_values.yaml --name gitea --namespace gitea keyporttech/gitea

or locally:

$ helm install --name gitea --namespace tools .

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Contributing

Please see keyporttech charts contribution guidelines

Running the cicd tooling locally

This chart uses a Makefile to run CICD. To run:

make build

Database config in pod vs external db

By default the chart will spin up a postgres container inside the pod. It can also work with external databases. To disable the in pod database and use and external one use the following values:

dbType: "postgres"
useInPodPostgres: false

#Connect to an external database
externalDB:
   dbUser: "postgres"
   dbPassword: "<MY_PASSWORD>"
   dbHost: "db-service-name.namespace.svc.cluster.local" # or some external host
   dbPort: 5432
   dbDatabase: "gitea"

This chart has only been tested using a postgres database. It is theoretically possible to work with others that gitea supports, but no testing has been done. Pull Requests to support or confirmation of other database connectivity would be much appreciated.

Example custom_values.yaml configs

This configuration creates pvcs with the storageclass glusterfs that cannot be deleted by helm, a kubernetes nginx ingress that serves the web applcation on external dns name git.example.com:8880 and exposes ssh through a NodePort that is exposed externally on a router using port 8022. The external DNS name for ssh is git.example.com.

ingress:
  enabled: true
  useSSL: false
  ## annotations used by the ingress - ex for k8s nginx ingress controller:
  ingress_annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "0"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "600"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "600"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-secret: basic-auth
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-realm: "Authentication Required - lab2"

service:
  http:
    serviceType: ClusterIP
    port: 3000
    externalPort: 8280
    externalHost: git.example.com
  ssh:
    serviceType: NodePort
    port: 22
    nodePort: 30222
    externalPort: 8022
    externalHost: git.example.com

persistence:
  enabled: true
  giteaSize: 10Gi
  postgresSize: 5Gi
  storageClass: glusterfs
  accessMode: ReadWriteMany
  annotations:
    "helm.sh/resource-policy": keep

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the gitea deployment:

$ helm uninstall gitea --namespace gitea

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Data Management

This chart will use and create optional persistent volume claims for both postgres (if using in pod db) and gitea data. By default the data will be deleted upon uninstalling the chart. This is not ideal but can be managed in a couple ways:

• prevent helm from deleting the pvcs it creates. Do this by enabling annotation: helm.sh/resource-policy": keep in the pvc optional annotations

persistence:
  annotations:
    "helm.sh/resource-policy": keep

• create a pvc outside the chart and configure the chart to use it. Do this by setting the persistence existingGiteaClaim and existingPostgresClaim properties.

 existingGiteaClaim: gitea-gitea
 existingPostgresClaim: gitea-postgres

a trick that can be is used to first set the helm.sh/resource-policy annotation so that the chart generates the pvcs, but doesn't delete them. Upon next deplyment set the exsiting claim names to the generated values.

Ingress And External Host/Ports

Gitea requires ports to be exposed for both web and ssh traffic. The chart is flexible and allow a combination of either ingresses, loadblancer, or nodeport services.

To expose the web application this chart will generate an ingress using the ingress controller of choice if specified. If an ingress is enabled services.http.externalHost must be specified. To expose SSH services it relies on either a LoadBalancer or NodePort.

Configuration

Refer to values.yaml for the full run-down on defaults.

The following table lists the configurable parameters of this chart and their default values.