Spilling the git tea (Ship It! #112)

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Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like?

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Featuring:

• Matti Ranta – Twitter, GitHub
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Intro links

• Sony BMG rootkit
• The longest fast

Interview

• gitea
• xgo
• act

Outro

• git extras

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kapitler

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:52)

https://sentry.io/

3. The opener (00:04:15)

4. What is Gitea? (00:13:39)

5. Running Gitea at scale (00:16:11)

6. Failover (00:18:04)

7. Why Kubernetes and Ceph? (00:19:27)

8. Where are the git files stored? (00:21:50)

9. Matti's maintainer role (00:24:56)

10. Gitea vs GitHub (00:25:20)

11. What motivated you? (00:30:39)

12. Gitea vs GitHub vs GitLab (00:34:12)

13. Rethinking infrastucture for features (00:42:05)

14. Matti's open source contributions (00:45:21)

15. Implementing Ci/CD (00:47:55)

16. Evolution of Gitea (00:51:04)

17. Thanks for joining us! (00:54:56)

18. Sponsor: Retool (00:56:46)

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19. The closer (01:01:23)

20. Outro (01:12:06)