Host your own Git repositories with full control. These self-hostable platforms offer code review, CI/CD, issue tracking, and more — without Microsoft's cloud.
GitHub is the world's largest code host, but being owned by Microsoft and dependent on a centralised service gives many developers pause. Self-hosting your forge means complete control over your code, CI runners, access controls, and data retention policies.
Gitea is a lightweight, painless self-hosted Git service written in Go. It covers the full GitHub feature set including issues, pull requests, wikis, projects, actions (CI), and package registry — in a single binary under 80MB RAM.
$docker run -d -p 3000:3000 gitea/gitea:latestForgejo is a community-driven, self-hosted software forge — a hard fork of Gitea without corporate influence. It's fully compatible with Gitea and is the official software powering Codeberg, Europe's largest ethical Git host.
$docker run -d -p 3000:3000 codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:latestGitLab Community Edition is the most feature-complete open-source GitHub alternative. It includes CI/CD pipelines, container registry, security scanning, code review, wikis, and a full DevOps lifecycle — all in one application.
$docker run -d -p 80:80 gitlab/gitlab-ce:latestGogs (Go Git Service) is the original painless self-hosted Git service. Extremely lightweight — runs on a Raspberry Pi — with basic features: repos, issues, milestones, wikis. If you want dead-simple Git hosting, Gogs is it.
$docker run -d -p 3000:3000 gogs/gogsSourcehut (~.ht) is a suite of open-source tools for software development that runs as a public server or can be self-hosted. It's radically minimal: no JavaScript on the front-end, email-driven workflows, and built for speed and auditability.