The Great Forgejo Migration: Introduction

Welcome to the Great British Bake-Off, I mean Forgejo migration! I intended this post to be the whole story of how I took a week to migrate nearly 60 repositories to my own forge and set up CI/CD and dependency automation over it. The moment I started writing, I realized it’s going to be a long series. Hopefully you will stick along though. The Background I have always been a fan of self-hosting. Since the days of Debian Potato1, I have been fixated on the idea of setting up and managing my own servers and services. There is no surprise in my career choices after thinking about this. While that original server’s hard drive ate itself a long, long time ago, and I was forced to rebuild it all by hand over the weekend (tequila was involved somehow), I eventually learned how to automate everything. In general, version control was always at the center of my automations and scripts. ...

September 18, 2025 · 6 min · Ame the Squirrel