Visit Docker Hub or GitHub Container registry to see all available images and tags.

To keep your data out of Docker container, we do a volume (/var/gogs -> /data) here, and you can change it based on your situation.

# Pull image from Docker Hub.
$ docker pull gogs/gogs

# Create local directory for volume.
$ mkdir -p /var/gogs

# Use `docker run` for the first time.
$ docker run --name=gogs -p 10022:22 -p 10880:3000 -v /var/gogs:/data gogs/gogs

# Use `docker start` if you have stopped it.
$ docker start gogs

Note: It is important to map the SSH service from the container to the host and set the appropriate SSH Port and URI settings when setting up Gogs for the first time. To access and clone Git repositories with the above configuration you would use: git clone ssh://git@hostname:10022/username/myrepo.git for example.

Files will be store in local path /var/gogs in my case.

Directory /var/gogs keeps Git repositories and Gogs data:

/var/gogs
|-- git
|   |-- gogs-repositories
|-- ssh
|   |-- # ssh public/private keys for Gogs
|-- gogs
    |-- conf
    |-- data
    |-- log

The "custom" directory may not be obvious in Docker environment. The /var/gogs/gogs (in the host) and /data/gogs (in the container) is already the "custom" directory and you do not need to create another layer but directly edit corresponding files under this directory.

# Create docker volume.
$ docker volume create --name gogs-data

# Use `docker run` for the first time.
$ docker run --name=gogs -p 10022:22 -p 10880:3000 -v gogs-data:/data gogs/gogs

Most of the settings are obvious and easy to understand, but there are some settings can be confusing by running Gogs inside Docker:

• Repository Root Path: keep it as default value /home/git/gogs-repositories because start.sh already made a symbolic link for you.
• Run User: keep it as default value git because build/finalize.sh already setup a user with name git.
• Domain: fill in with Docker container IP (e.g. 192.168.99.100). But if you want to access your Gogs instance from a different physical machine, please fill in with the hostname or IP address of the Docker host machine.
• SSH Port: Use the exposed port from Docker container. For example, your SSH server listens on 22 inside Docker, but you expose it by 10022:22, then use 10022 for this value. Builtin SSH server is not recommended inside Docker Container
• HTTP Port: Use port you want Gogs to listen on inside Docker container. For example, your Gogs listens on 3000 inside Docker, and you expose it by 10880:3000, but you still use 3000 for this value.
• Application URL: Use combination of Domain and exposed HTTP Port values (e.g. http://192.168.99.100:10880/).

Full documentation of application settings can be found here.

This container has some options available via environment variables, these options are opt-in features that can help the administration of this container:

• SOCAT_LINK:
  • Possible value: true, false, 1, 0
  • Default: true
  • Action: Bind linked docker container to localhost socket using socat. Any exported port from a linked container will be binded to the matching port on localhost.
  • Disclaimer: As this option rely on the environment variable created by docker when a container is linked, this option should be deactivated in managed environment such as Rancher or Kubernetes (set to 0 or false)
• RUN_CROND:
  • Possible value: true, false, 1, 0
  • Default: false
  • Action: Request crond to be run inside the container. Its default configuration will periodically run all scripts from /etc/periodic/${period} but custom crontabs can be added to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/.
• BACKUP_INTERVAL:
  • Possible value: 3h, 7d, 3M
  • Default: null
  • Action: In combination with RUN_CROND set to true, enables backup system.
    See: Backup System
• BACKUP_RETENTION:
  • Possible value: 360m, 7d, ...m/d
  • Default: 7d
  • Action: Used by backup system. Backups older than specified in expression are deleted periodically.
    See: Backup System
• BACKUP_ARG_CONFIG:
  • Possible value: /app/gogs/example/custom/config
  • Default: null
  • Action: Used by backup system. If defined, supplies --config argument to gogs backup.
    See: Backup System
• BACKUP_ARG_EXCLUDE_REPOS:
  • Possible value: test-repo1, test-repo2
  • Default: null
  • Action: Used by backup system. If defined, supplies --exclude-repos argument to gogs backup.
    See: Backup System
• BACKUP_EXTRA_ARGS:
  • Possible value: --verbose --exclude-mirror-repos
  • Default: null
  • Action: Used by backup system. If defined, append content to arguments to gogs backup.
    See: Backup System

Automated backups with retention policy:

• BACKUP_INTERVAL controls how often the backup job runs and supports interval in hours (h), days (d), and months (M), eg. 3h, 7d, 3M. The lowest possible value is one hour (1h).
• BACKUP_RETENTION supports expressions in minutes (m) and days (d), eg. 360m, 2d. The lowest possible value is 60 minutes (60m).

❗❗❗Make sure you have volumed data to somewhere outside Docker container❗❗❗

Steps to upgrade Gogs with Docker:

• docker pull gogs/gogs
• docker stop gogs
• docker rm gogs
• Finally, create a container for the first time and don't forget to do the same for the volume and port mapping.

• The docker container cannot currently be built on Raspberry 1 (armv6l) as our base image alpine does not have a go package available for this platform.

• Share port 22 between Gogs inside Docker & the local system