Five Minute Dockerized GitHub Replacement

five_minute_dockerized_github.txt

To set up a new server with a Gogs instance, similar to GitHub:

1. Create a clean VM with Debian (on e.g. Digital Ocean) and point a (sub)domain to it
2. Log in and change the SSH daemon to listen on port 2222
   - edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, "Port 22" -> "Port 2222", systemctl restart ssh
   - log out; log in with "ssh -p 2222 root@..."
3. Install Docker
   - https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/debian/
4. Create data directories
   - mkdir /home/gogs
   - mkdir /home/certs
5. Create containers
   - export GITHOST=git.mydomain.com
   - docker run --restart=always -d --name nginx-proxy -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /home/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro -v /etc/nginx/vhost.d -v /usr/share/nginx/html -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro jwilder/nginx-proxy
   - docker run --restart=always -d --name letsencrypt -v /home/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw --volumes-from nginx-proxy -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion
   - docker run --restart=always -d --name gogs -p 22:22 -v /home/gogs:/data -e VIRTUAL_HOST=$GITHOST,www.$GITHOST -e LETSENCRYPT_HOST=$GITHOST,www.$GITHOST -e LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=root@$GITHOST -e VIRTUAL_PORT=3000 gogs/gogs
      - now visit https://$GITHOST/ and go through the Gogs setup (choose SQLite as database option)