Git Homestead

Your personal land for cultivating repositories.

Requirements

• Docker
• Ansible

A git repository server for your personal use

I use GitHub for nearly all of my personal projects. I was thinking that while it's fine mostly, it would be really nice to be able to keep my repos in my homelab on a VM I control.

This project is how I am going to do that.

This is built in Go, runs in a docker compose env, and is deployed to my homelab using Ansible.

Features

• REST API for git repositories
• Git WebUI to view git repositories using https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb
• Git running in daemon mode to serve git repositories

Future Features

• Fleshed out REST API
• CLI for REST API to have a local tool to manage repos
• Maybe a nicer webui (hello htmx?) using that same REST API

Setup

1. Create config.yml from example.config.yml.
2. Create inventory.ini from example.inventory.ini.
3. Edit config.yml and inventory.ini to suit your environment
4. Run ansible-playbook main.yml to deploy.
   That playbook will:
   • Install and configure Docker on the remote host
   • Copy the entire project to the remote host
   • Run docker compose build and then start the services

You can then access the services at:

• http://yourhost:8080/repos (REST API)
• http://yourhost:8081 (WebUI)
• git://yourhost:9418 (Git Server)