Deploy and Host Gitea on Railway

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service — a fast open-source alternative to GitHub and GitLab that runs comfortably on modest resources. Host unlimited private and public repositories with issues, pull requests, code review, built-in CI/CD (Gitea Actions), a package registry, wikis, and organizations.

About Hosting Gitea

Gitea ships as a single small Go binary, so hosting it means one container and one persistent volume. This template deploys the official image pinned to 1.26.4 with a volume mounted at /data, which holds your repositories, SQLite database, LFS objects, avatars, and configuration — everything survives redeploys. No environment variables are needed: the service is preconfigured to bind Railway's injected PORT, and SQLite means no external database to run. First load shows the Gitea install wizard; the defaults work out of the box — set a site title, create the first admin account, and click Install.

Common Use Cases

Private Git hosting for personal projects, teams, or client work without per-seat pricing
Self-hosted GitHub alternative with issues, pull requests, and code review
Lightweight CI/CD and package registry via Gitea Actions for small teams

Dependencies for Gitea Hosting

Persistent volume mounted at /data (repositories, SQLite database, LFS, configuration)
No external database required — SQLite by default; PostgreSQL can be added later for scale

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Complete the install wizard on first visit and create the admin account right away, since the instance is public until you do.

This template exposes the web interface only. Clone over HTTPS; if you need Git-over-SSH, add a Railway TCP proxy to port 22 and enable the built-in SSH server in the Gitea settings.

Why Deploy Gitea on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Gitea on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.