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Gitea docker (rootless) without SSH passthrough

Official gitea docs are heavily focussed on doing SSH passthrough from the host machine to the docker container. An alternative is to simply run SSH for Gitea on a different port. Though I had some problems getting this docker compose setup to run. This gist contains my setup I finally came up with: It does not require SSH passthrough from the host to the docker container but still offers support to git clone via SSH.

To check if this setup works for you simply follow these steps:

Place enclosed docker-compose.yml in a directory.
Run docker compose up
Visit http://localhost:8033/ and simply install Gitea with given defaults

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	#!/bin/bash

	# This script creates a .zip backup of gitea running inside docker and copies the backup file to the current working directory

	echo "Creating gitea backup inside docker containter ..."
	docker exec -u git -it -w /tmp $(docker ps -qf "name=gitea_server_1") bash -c '/app/gitea/gitea dump -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini --file /tmp/gitea-dump.zip'

	echo "Copying backup file from the container to the host machine ..."
	docker cp $(docker ps -qf "name=gitea_server_1"):/tmp/gitea-dump.zip /tmp