https://uclab.dev/tags/s3-backup/ Recent content in S3-Backup on DevOps von UCLAB Hugo en Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:30:11 +0000 https://uclab.dev/posts/forgejo/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:30:11 +0000 https://uclab.dev/posts/forgejo/ <p>Forgejo is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service — a community fork of Gitea. In this post I&rsquo;ll walk through how I deployed it on my home k3s cluster backed by a CloudNativePG (CNPG) PostgreSQL database, MinIO S3-compatible object storage for backups, and exposed it via Cilium&rsquo;s Gateway API with automatic TLS through cert-manager.</p> <figure><img src="https://uclab.dev/posts/forgejo/images/gemini6.png" alt="forgejo"> </figure> <h2 id="architecture-overview">Architecture Overview</h2> <p>The setup involves three main layers:</p> <ul> <li><strong>App layer</strong> — the Forgejo deployment, services, and ingress (Gateway + HTTPRoute)</li> <li><strong>Database layer</strong> — a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL cluster with WAL archiving to MinIO</li> <li><strong>Secrets layer</strong> — External Secrets Operator pulling credentials from Vault</li> </ul> <p>Here&rsquo;s the directory structure I&rsquo;m using in my GitOps repo:</p>