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+# A personal Git enhanced with CI/CD
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+## Gitea for a self hosted git 
+
+In the continuity of the static site generator, I wanted also to store my blog in a git repo.
+This has several purposes : 
+- I could eventually edit my blog from any machine : I just would need to clone the repository and edit my files
+- With a CI/CD pipeline, all changes to this repository would trigger the pipeline to rebuild the static blog automatically and deploy it on my server
+
+There are not many self host git that include a nice web UI. Of course I stick to striclty open source, and chose gitea over gitlab.
+Its web UI is nice, similar to github, it is relatively lightweight, compared to gitlab, its installation is quite easy and has all the basic functionnalities I need : 
+- A simple git backend
+- A intuitive web UI
+- A container registry
+
+To also improve my `docker` skills, I went for a all in docker solution. Gitea has an official image on the docker [hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/gitea/gitea), as well as a nice [documentation](https://docs.gitea.com/installation/install-with-docker)
+
+To persist my data, PostgreSQL is my go to : I feel it is simply the best Database so far. 
+
+## Drone for continuous integration/deployment pipelines
+
+Whereas choosing a self hosted git was relatively easy, picking a CI/CD tool was a thougher choice : there are many of them out there.
+I know less about CI/CD, and narrowed my short list to two of them:
+- Drone
+- Buildbot
+
+In order to move on my project, I tried not to overthink it and went for Drone, even though I feel Buildbot would be maybe a more complete solution.
+One aspect of Drone that pleased me was the possibility to run all with docker images, and its documented integration with Gitea.
+Let me clarify that : 
+- Indeed, drone interfaces easyli with gitea as per its [documentation](https://docs.drone.io/server/provider/gitea/) (and not so much with gitlab, which conforted my initial choice)
+- The other point is that it can run its pipeline all within docker container, as seen [here](https://docs.drone.io/quickstart/docker/), that is each step of the pipeline is the execution of a container. As I wanted to improve my docker skills as well, this was a nice touch. However this means that I would have to package my static blog generator as a docker image to run it in my pipeline.
+
+The web UI is also very nice and intuitive, and its uses the Gitea SSO for signing in.
+
+## The actual setup
+
+### The architecture
+
+First of all, since all these services would run of the same machine (a small VPS, as the workload of this personnal blog shall remain low), I wanted to have an nginx proxy before all of them. Of course, even Nginx shall be run as a docker container.
+
+Hence here are all the containers that must be up and running at the end : 
+- Nginx
+- Gitea
+- Postgres
+- Drone 
+- Drone runner (indeed, this container ACTUALLY runs the pipeline, the Drone one only acts as a scheduler)
+
+All of them needs to be on the same docker network to comunicate with each other.