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Gitea

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What is Gitea​

From https://gitea.io/

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Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published under the MIT license.

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This is based on authentik 2021.10.3 and Gitea 1.16.0+rc1 installed using https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-binary/. Instructions may differ between versions.

Preparation​

The following placeholders will be used:

  • authentik.company is the FQDN of authentik.
  • gitea.company is the FQDN of Gitea.

Step 1​

In authentik, create an OAuth2/OpenID Provider (under Resources/Providers) with these settings:

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Only settings that have been modified from default have been listed.

Protocol Settings

  • Name: Gitea
  • Signing Key: Select any available key
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Take note of the Client ID and Client Secret, you'll need to give them to Gitea in Step 3.

Step 2​

In authentik, create an application (under Resources/Applications) which uses this provider. Optionally apply access restrictions to the application using policy bindings.

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Only settings that have been modified from default have been listed.

  • Name: Gitea
  • Slug: gitea-slug
  • Provider: Gitea

Step 3​

Navigate to the Authentication Sources page at https://gitea.company/admin/auths and click Add Authentication Source

Change the following fields

Add Authentication Source and you should be done. Your Gitea login page should now have a Sign in With followed by the authentik logo which you can click on to sign-in to Gitea with Authentik creds.