rusian/gitolite-cgit repository overview

⁠gitolite-cgit based on alpine image

⁠What is this image?

rusian/gitolite-cgit⁠ is a Docker image with cgit in dark-mode and gitolite running on top of alpine base image.

⁠Usage

1. Pull the image

docker pull rusian/gitolite-cgit

1. Run the image with provided environment:

docker run -e SSH_KEY="$(cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub)" -e SSH_KEY_NAME="$(whoami)" -p 22:22 -p 80:80 -p 9418:9418 -v repo:/var/lib/git rusian/gitolite-cgit

⁠Environment

• SSH_KEY: Public key of gitolite admin
• SSH_KEY_NAME: Name of gitolite admin
• CGIT_CLONE_PREFIX: cgit clone prefix to display on each repository. For example: https://git.example.com, the clone URL should be: ssh://[email protected]
• CGIT_ROOT_TITLE: Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value: "Git Repository Browser".
• CGIT_DESC: Add description to cgit
• CGIT_SNAPSHOT: Snapshot tarball.

⁠Exposed ports

• Port 22: for SSH clone
• Port 80: for cgit webpage running on Nginx
• Port 9418: for git daemon protocol

⁠Volume

• /var/lib/git: gitolite home folder, store all repositories, gitolite-admin repo, ...
• /etc/ssh/: store all generated SSH server key

⁠How to interact with git server

Cgit webpage: http://<server_ip>/

Supported clone method:

• SSH: authentication with gitolite configuration inside gitolite-admin. For more information, pls refer to basic administration⁠. Syntax: git clone ssh://git@<server_ip>/<repo_name>
• HTTP: enable-http-clone=1 by default, which let cgit act as a dumb HTTP enpoint for git clones. You can disable that by edit /etc/cgitrc. I may consider to add more feature, so you can set config from docker run or docker-compose.yml. git push is not supported via HTTP at this moment. Syntax: git clone http://<server_ip>/<repo_name>
• GIT: git daemon is enabled by default with upload-pack service (this serves git fetch-pack and git ls-remote clients), allowing anonymous fetch, clone. Syntax: git clone git://<server_ip>/<repo_path>

⁠Docker-compose

1. Pull the image:

docker pull rusian/gitolite-cgit

1. Create environment file

In this repo, I create gitolite admin with the host public key and username. In case, you are running this on server, you need to enter SSH_KEY and SSH_KEY_NAME into config.env:

#
# Gitolite options
#
SSH_KEY=<your public key content>
SSH_KEY_NAME=<your gitolite name>
#
# Cgit options
#
CGIT_ROOT_TITLE=Git Repository Browser
CGIT_DESC=a fast webinterface for the git dscm
CGIT_CLONE_PREFIX=http://<YOUR-DOMAIN> ssh://git@<YOUR-DOMAIN>

CGIT_SNAPSHOT=tar.gz tar.bz2 tar.xz

For convience, I create a script for user who use the public key and name from the host running Docker:

# change ssh_key, ssh_key_name to reflect your current setup
SSH_KEY=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub)
SSH_KEY_NAME=$(whoami)

sed -i.bak \
    -e "s#SSH_KEY=.*#SSH_KEY=${SSH_KEY}#g" \
    -e "s#SSH_KEY_NAME=.*#SSH_KEY_NAME=${SSH_KEY_NAME}#g" \
    "$(dirname "$0")/config.env"

1. Create docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'

services:
  app:
    image: rusian/gitolite-cgit
    container_name: gitolite-cgit
    env_file: config.env
    volumes:
      - git:/var/lib/git
    ports:
      - 22:22
      - 80:80
      - 9418:9418
    tty: true
volumes:
  git:

Then power-on your container:

docker-compose up -d

⁠Customize cgit configuration

As there are many cgit configuration, you can create cgitrc configure and map to /etc/cgitrc

# Copy cgitrc from existing container
docker cp gitolite-cgit:/etc/cgitrc .

Modify the docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'

services:
  app:
    image: rusian/gitolite-cgit
    container_name: gitolite-cgit
    env_file: config.env
    volumes:
      - git:/var/lib/git
      - ./cgitrc:/etc/cgitrc
    ports:
      - 22:22
      - 80:80
      - 9418:9418
    tty: true
volumes:
  git:

⁠Build docker image

docker build --no-cache --tag rusian/gitolite-cgit -f gitolite-cgit/Dockerfile gitolite-cgit

⁠Source

https://git.fridu.us/heckyel/gitolite-cgit-docker⁠