---
title: 'Raspberry Pi 5: Part-1: Install Docker and Gitea'
date: '2025-05-05'
slug: 'raspi-5-docker-p1'
excerpt: 'Setting up docker to containerize UI app and back-end with CI/CD'
---

# Getting started

Welcome to the series where I will be setting up a mini server to host your own website. We will do a self hosted git server. Then we will install woodpecker, a lightweight CI/CD system to trigger pipelines in push to git repo. And then we will setup Grafana to monitor the traffic to Raspberry Pi 5. We will then add TLS with Caddy and also add some reverse proxy and also do port forwarding for more security.

## Installing Docker

```shell
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
```

```shell
curl -sSL https:..get.docker.com | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
```

## Installing Gitea

```shell
mkdir -p ~/gitea
cd ~/gitea
```

Create the docker-compose.yaml:

```yaml
version: '3'

services:
  gitea:
    image: gitea/gitea:latest
    container_name: gitea
    environment:
      - USER_UID=1000
      - USER_GID=1000
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./gitea:/data
    ports:
      - '3000:3000'
      - '2222:22'
```

Launch Gitea:

```shell
docker compose up -d
```

Create admin user:

```shell
docker exec -it gitea /bin/bash
```

```shell
gitea admin use  create \
  --username youradmin \
  --password yourpassword \
  --email you@example.com \
  --admin \
  --must-change-password=false
```

Exit the container

```shell
exit
```

Login to the browser at `http://localhost:3000`