Run Your Own Git Server with CI

What you will build

Your own GitHub-style service, with working automated checks.

Starting point: you only need a Vultr account. This challenge is self-contained, so you can do it without having done any other.

The plan

1. Deploy Gitea with Docker Compose and a database
2. Put it behind HTTPS
3. Create a user and a repository, and push code over SSH
4. Register a CI runner on a separate small instance
5. Add a workflow that runs tests on every push
6. Make a push fail on purpose and show the red check

git remote add origin ssh://git@git.example.com/you/project.git
git push -u origin main

How you will be judged

• The runner is isolated from the Gitea host
• Registration is closed or controlled
• Both a passing and a failing run are shown

Keep CI secrets in the platform's secret store, never in the repository.