Forgejo on dev.endevour

Upgrading to Forgejo 7.0.1

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

It’s not that long ago that I wrote about doing routine upgrades on containerised web apps using Forgejo as an example as I upgraded Forgejo (my git repository manager) between patch versions of 1.21, then a few days later, they dropped 7.0.0

They say the major version jump is due to it being an LTS (long term support) release, and changing to semantic versioning 2.0.0 , but that doesn’t quite explain it to me, and I assume this is partly signifying the fork’s drift away from the gitea codebase. In any case, the upgrade to 7.0.0 it does involve some breaking changes, and signifies to me that a lot has been on, which makes me keen to wait for a patch release (I’m always keen for other people to debug these things) which has now landed.

My Web App Update Process

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve settled on a very standard, reproducible setup for services in my homelab. This post looks at that, then runs through the update I did today to Forgejo which only took a few minutes and felt relatively risk free.

Standard Setups

My system is based around Proxmox. I have three physical machines - one for production apps, a production spare, and a development/testbed machine. A Synology NAS serves for backups. Moving a VM or LXC between the machines is trivial; but it’s done manually - the machines are not clustered for high availability.

Gogs, Gitea, Forgejo

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been really pleased with Gogs - it’s lightweight, was simple to spin up, and has worked perfectly. But then this morning on Mastodon, there’s a post from @Codeberg.org describing a security vulnerability in their Git hosting project Forgejo. This issue also apparently affects Gitea and Gogs - what’s up with that?

I actually already did spend a bit of time comparing Gogs and Gitea before deciding on Gogs, since I’d heard of people running Gitea over the past year or so, but only seen that Gogs seemed to be popular with self-hosters in a Lemmy post I’d read. My first impression was that Gitea was more focused on CI/CD and seemed to have a more complicated install process.