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Forgejo Docs - v1.21

Hardware infrastructure

The resources used by the infrastructure are in the https://code.forgejo.org/infrastructure/ organization. There is a dedicated chatroom.

LXC Hosts

All LXC hosts are setup with lxc-helpers.

Terminal window
name=forgejo-host
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_run $name -- sudo --user debian bash

See https://github.com/mikesart/inotify-info. Running multiple LXC containers will quickly use the default limit (128 on bookworm).

Terminal window
echo fs.inotify.max_user_instances=8192 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

Unprivileged

Terminal window
name=forgejo-host
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_create --config "unprivileged" $name
echo "lxc.start.auto = 1" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/lxc/$name/config
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_start $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_user_install $name $(id -u) $USER

Docker enabled

Terminal window
name=forgejo-host
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_create --config "docker" $name
echo "lxc.start.auto = 1" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/lxc/$name/config
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_start $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_docker $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_user_install $name $(id -u) $USER

K8S enabled

Terminal window
name=forgejo-host
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_create --config "k8s" $name
echo "lxc.start.auto = 1" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/lxc/$name/config
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_start $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_user_install $name $(id -u) $USER

Docker and LXC enabled

Terminal window
name=forgejo-host
ipv4=10.85.12
ipv6=fc33
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_create --config "docker lxc" $name
echo "lxc.start.auto = 1" | sudo tee -a /var/lib/lxc/$name/config
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_start $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_docker $name
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_lxc $name $ipv4 $ipv6
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_user_install $name $(id -u) $USER

nftables

Terminal window
sudo nft list ruleset

Host reverse proxy

The reverse proxy on a host forwards to the designated LXC container with something like the following examples in /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com, where A.B.C.D is the IP allocated to the LXC container running the web service.

And symlink:

Terminal window
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com

The certificate is obtained once and automatically renewed with:

sudo apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot -n --agree-tos --email contact@forgejo.org -d example.com --nginx

When removing a configuration, the certificate can also be removed with:

sudo certbot delete --cert-name example.com

Host wakeup-on-logs

https://code.forgejo.org/infrastructure/wakeup-on-logs

K8S wakeup-on-logs script

$ cat /etc/wakeup-on-logs/forgejo-v8
#!/bin/bash


set -x


self="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
name=$(basename $self)
# keep it lower than https://code.forgejo.org/infrastructure/wakeup-on-logs
# otherwise it will get killed by it
timeout=4m


function lxc_run() {
    lxc-attach $name -- sudo --user debian KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml "$@" |& tee -a /var/log/$name.log
}


image=codeberg.org/forgejo-experimental/forgejo
major=${name##*v}
digest=$(skopeo inspect --format "{{.Digest}}" docker://$image:$major-rootless)
values=https://code.forgejo.org/infrastructure/k8s/raw/branch/main/forgejo-v$major/values.yml
lxc_run helm upgrade forgejo -f $values -f /home/debian/secrets.yml oci://code.forgejo.org/forgejo-helm/forgejo --atomic --wait --timeout $timeout --install --set image.digest=$digest

Forgejo example

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;


    server_name example.com;


    location / {
        proxy_pass http://A.B.C.D:8080;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
        client_max_body_size 2G;
    }
}

GitLab example

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;


    server_name example.com;


    location / {
       proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
       proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
       proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
       proxy_set_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;


       client_body_timeout 60;
       client_max_body_size 200M;
       send_timeout 1200;
       lingering_timeout 5;


       proxy_buffering off;
       proxy_connect_timeout 90;
       proxy_send_timeout 300;
       proxy_read_timeout 600s;


       proxy_pass http://example.com;
       proxy_http_version 1.1;
    }
}

Vanila example

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;


    server_name example.com;


    location / {
        proxy_pass http://A.B.C.D;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    }
}

302 redirection

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;


    server_name example.com;
    return 302 https://other.example.com$request_uri;
}

Forgejo runners

The LXC container in which the runner is installed must have capabilities that support the backend.

  • docker:// needs a Docker enabled container
  • lxc:// needs a Docker and LXC enabled container

The runners it contains are not started at boot, it must be done manually. The bash history has the command line to do so.

Installation

Terminal window
version=3.5.0
sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/forgejo-runner-$version https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/releases/download/v$version/forgejo-runner-$version-linux-amd64
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/forgejo-runner-$version
echo 'export TERM=xterm-256color' >> .bashrc

Creating a runner

Multiple runners can co-exist on the same machine. To keep things organized they are located in a directory that is the same as the URL from which the token is obtained. For instance DIR=codeberg.org/forgejo-integration means that the token was obtained from the https://codeberg.org/forgejo-integration organization.

If a runner only provides unprivileged docker containers, the labels in config.yml should be: labels: ['docker:docker://node:20-bookworm'].

If a runner provides LXC containers and unprivileged docker containers, the labels in config.yml should be labels: ['self-hosted:lxc://debian:bookworm', 'docker:docker://node:20-bookworm'].

Terminal window
name=myrunner
mkdir -p $DIR ; cd $DIR
forgejo-runner generate-config > config-$name.yml
## edit config-$name.yml and adjust the `labels:`
## Obtain a $TOKEN from https://$DIR
forgejo-runner-$version register --no-interactive --token $TOKEN --name runner --instance https://codeberg.org
forgejo-runner-$version --config config-$name.yml daemon |& cat -v > runner.log &

Octopuce

Octopuce provides hardware managed by the devops team. It can only be accessed via SSH.

To access the services hosted on the LXC containers, ssh port forwarding to the private IPs can be used. For instance:

Terminal window
echo 127.0.0.1 private.forgejo.org >> /etc/hosts
sudo ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa -L 80:10.77.0.128:80 debian@forgejo01.octopuce.fr
firefox http://private.forgejo.org

Containers

  • fogejo-host

    Dedicated to http://private.forgejo.org

    • Docker enabled
    • upgrades checklist:
      Terminal window
      emacs /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh # change the `image=`
      docker stop forgejo
      sudo rsync -av --numeric-ids --delete --progress /srv/forgejo/ /root/forgejo-backup/
      docker rm forgejo
      bash -x /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh
      docker logs -n 200 -f forgejo

  • fogejo-runner-host

    Has runners installed to run against private.forgejo.org

    • Docker and LXC enabled 10.85.12 fc33

Hetzner

All hardware machines are running Debian GNU/linux bookworm. They are LXC hosts setup with lxc-helpers.

NOTE: only use EX101 with a ASRockRack W680D4U-1L motherboard.

vSwitch

A vSwitch is assigned via the Robot console on all servers for backend communications and configured in /etc/network/interfaces for each of them with something like:

auto enp5s0.4000
iface enp5s0.4000 inet static
  address 10.53.100.2
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  vlan-raw-device enp5s0
  mtu 1400

The IP address ends with the same number as the hardware (hetzner02 => .2).

DRBD

DRBD is configured like in the following example with hetzner02 as the primary and hetzner03 as the secondary:

Terminal window
$ apt-get install drbd-utils
$ cat /etc/drbd.d/r0.res
resource r0 {
    net {
        # A : write completion is determined when data is written to the local disk and the local TCP transmission buffer
        # B : write completion is determined when data is written to the local disk and remote buffer cache
        # C : write completion is determined when data is written to both the local disk and the remote disk
        protocol C;
        cram-hmac-alg sha1;
        # any secret key for authentication among nodes
        shared-secret "***";
    }
    disk {
        resync-rate 1000M;
    }
    on hetzner02 {
        address 10.53.100.2:7788;
        volume 0 {
            # device name
            device /dev/drbd0;
            # specify disk to be used for device above
            disk /dev/nvme0n1p5;
            # where to create metadata
            # specify the block device name when using a different disk
            meta-disk internal;
        }
    }
    on hetzner03 {
        address 10.53.100.3:7788;
        volume 0 {
            device /dev/drbd0;
            disk /dev/nvme1n1p5;
            meta-disk internal;
        }
    }
}
$ sudo drbdadm create-md r0
$ sudo drbdadm up r0

On hetzner02 (the primary), pretend all is in sync to save the initial bitmap sync since there is actually no data at all.

Terminal window
sudo drbdadm new-current-uuid --clear-bitmap r0/0

The DRBD device is mounted on /var/lib/lxc in /etc/fstab there is a noauto line:

/dev/drbd0 /var/lib/lxc ext4 noauto,defaults 0 0

To prevent split brain situations a manual step is required at boot time, on the machine that is going to be the primary.

Terminal window
sudo drbdadm up r0
sudo drbdsetup status
sudo drbdadm primary r0
sudo mount /var/lib/lxc
sudo lxc-autostart start
sudo lxc-ls -f
sudo drbdsetup status

hetzner{01,04}

https://hetzner{01,04}.forgejo.org run on EX101 Hetzner hardware.

LXC

Terminal window
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_lxc_inside 10.41.13 fc29

Disk partitioning

  • First disk
    • OS
    • a partition mounted on /srv where non precious data goes such as the LXC containers with runners.
  • Second disk
    • configured with DRBD for precious data.

Root filesystem backups

  • hetzner01:/etc/cron.daily/backup-hetzner04 rsync -aHS --delete-excluded --delete --numeric-ids --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /sys --exclude /precious --exclude /srv --exclude /var/lib/lxc 10.53.100.4:/ /srv/backups/hetzner04/ >& /var/log/$(basename $0).log
  • hetzner04:/etc/cron.daily/backup-hetzner01 rsync -aHS --delete-excluded --delete --numeric-ids --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /sys --exclude /precious --exclude /srv --exclude /var/lib/lxc 10.53.100.1:/ /srv/backups/hetzner01/ >& /var/log/$(basename $0).log

LXC containers

  • runner-lxc-helpers (hetzner01)

    Dedicated to Forgejo runners for the https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/lxc-helpers project.

    • K8S enabled
    • code.forgejo.org/forgejo/lxc-helpers/config*.yml

  • forgejo-runners (hetzner01)

    Dedicated to Forgejo runners for the https://codeberg.org/forgejo organization.

    • Docker enabled
    • codeberg.org/forgejo/config*.yml

  • runner01-lxc (hetzner01)

    Dedicated to Forgejo runners for https://code.forgejo.org.

    • Docker and LXC enabled 10.194.201 fc35
    • code.forgejo.org/forgejo/config*.yml
    • code.forgejo.org/actions/config*.yml
    • code.forgejo.org/forgejo-integration/config*.yml
    • code.forgejo.org/forgejo-contrib/config*.yml
    • code.forgejo.org/f3/config*.yml
    • code.forgejo.org/forgefriends/config*.yml

  • forgejo-v9 (hetzner04) same as forgejo-v8

  • forgejo-v8 (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://v8.next.forgejo.org

    • K8S enabled
    • K8S wakeup-on-logs script /etc/wakeup-on-logs/forgejo-v8
    • Values file
    • /home/debian/v8.nftables 
      add table ip v8;
      flush table ip v8;
      add chain ip v8 prerouting {
        type nat hook prerouting priority 0;
        policy accept;
        dnat ip addr . port to tcp dport map { 2080 : 10.41.13.27 . 2222 };
      };
    • Add to iface enp4s0 inet static in /etc/network/interfaces 
      up nft -f /home/debian/v8.nftables

  • forgefriends-forum (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://forum.forgefriends.org

    • Docker enabled

  • forgefriends-gitlab (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://lab.forgefriends.org

    • Docker enabled

  • forgefriends-cloud (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://cloud.forgefriends.org

    • Docker enabled

  • gna-forgejo (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://forgejo.gna.org

    • Docker enabled

  • gna-forum (hetzner04)

    Dedicated to https://forum.gna.org

    • Docker enabled

hetzner{02,03}

https://hetzner02.forgejo.org & https://hetzner03.forgejo.org run on EX44 Hetzner hardware.

LXC

Terminal window
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_lxc_inside 10.6.83 fc16

Disk partitioning

  • First disk
    • OS
    • a partition configured with DRBD for precious data mounted on /var/lib/lxc
  • Second disk
    • non precious data such as the LXC containers with runners.

Root filesystem backups

  • hetzner03:/etc/cron.daily/backup-hetzner02 rsync -aHS --delete-excluded --delete --numeric-ids --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /sys --exclude /srv --exclude /var/lib/lxc 10.53.100.2:/ /srv/backups/hetzner02/
  • hetzner02:/etc/cron.daily/backup-hetzner03 rsync -aHS --delete-excluded --delete --numeric-ids --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /sys --exclude /srv --exclude /var/lib/lxc 10.53.100.3:/ /srv/backups/hetzner03/

Public IP addresses

The public IP addresses attached to the hosts are not failover IPs that can be moved from one host to the next. The DNS entry needs to be updated if the primary hosts changes.

When additional IP addresses are attached to the server, they are added to /etc/network/interfaces like ipv4 65.21.67.71 and ipv6 2a01:4f9:3081:51ec::102 below.

auto enp5s0
iface enp5s0 inet static
  address 65.21.67.73
  netmask 255.255.255.192
  gateway 65.21.67.65
  # route 65.21.67.64/26 via 65.21.67.65
  up route add -net 65.21.67.64 netmask 255.255.255.192 gw 65.21.67.65 dev enp5s0
  # BEGIN code.forgejo.org
  up ip addr add 65.21.67.71/32 dev enp5s0
  up nft -f /home/debian/code.nftables
  down ip addr del 65.21.67.71/32 dev enp5s0
  # END code.forgejo.org


iface enp5s0 inet6 static
  address 2a01:4f9:3081:51ec::2
  netmask 64
  gateway fe80::1
  # BEGIN code.forgejo.org
  up ip -6 addr add 2a01:4f9:3081:51ec::102/64 dev enp5s0
  down ip -6 addr del 2a01:4f9:3081:51ec::102/64 dev enp5s0
  # END code.forgejo.org

Port forwarding

Forwarding a port to an LXC container can be done with /home/debian/code.nftables for the public IP of code.forgejo.org (65.21.67.71) to the private IP of the code LXC container:

add table ip code;
flush table ip code;
add chain ip code prerouting {
  type nat hook prerouting priority 0;
  policy accept;
  ip daddr 65.21.67.71 tcp dport { ssh } dnat to 10.6.83.195;
};

with nft -f /root/code.nftables.

302 redirects

  • On hetzner02
    • try.next.forgejo.org redirects to v(latest stable).next.forgejo.org
    • dev.next.forgejo.org redirects to v(latest dev).next.forgejo.org

Containers

  • fogejo-code on hetzner02

    Dedicated to https://code.forgejo.org

    • Docker enabled
    • upgrades checklist:
      • ssh -t debian@hetzner02.forgejo.org lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_run forgejo-code -- sudo --user debian bash
        Terminal window
        emacs /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh # change the `image=`
        docker stop forgejo
      • ssh -t debian@hetzner02.forgejo.org sudo /etc/cron.daily/backup-forgejo-code
      • ssh -t debian@hetzner02.forgejo.org lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_run forgejo-code -- sudo --user debian bash
        Terminal window
        docker rm forgejo
        bash -x /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh
        docker logs -n 200 -f forgejo
    • Rotating 30 days backups happen daily /etc/cron.daily/forgejo-code-backup.sh
    • Add code.forgejo.org to the forgejo.org SPF record

  • forgejo-next on hetzner02

    Dedicated to https://next.forgejo.org

    • Docker enabled
    • /etc/cron.hourly/forgejo-upgrade runs /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh > /home/debian/run-forgejo-$(date +%d).log
    • When a new major version is published (8.0 for instance) run-forgejo.sh must be updated with it
    • Reset everything
      Terminal window
      docker stop forgejo
      docker rm forgejo
      sudo rm -fr /srv/forgejo.old
      sudo mv /srv/forgejo /srv/forgejo.old
      bash -x /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh
    • /home/debian/next.nftables 
      add table ip next;
      flush table ip next;
      add chain ip next prerouting {
        type nat hook prerouting priority 0;
        policy accept;
        ip daddr 65.21.67.65 tcp dport { 2020 } dnat to 10.6.83.213;
      };
    • Add to iface enp5s0 inet static in /etc/network/interfaces 
      up nft -f /home/debian/next.nftables
    - `/etc/nginx/sites-available/next.forgejo.org` same as `/etc/nginx/sites-available/code.forgejo.org`

  • forgejo-v7 on hetzner02

    Dedicated to https://v7.next.forgejo.org

    • Docker enabled
    • /etc/cron.hourly/forgejo-upgrade runs /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh > /home/debian/run-forgejo-$(date +%d).log
    • Reset everything
      Terminal window
      docker stop forgejo
      docker rm forgejo
      sudo rm -fr /srv/forgejo.old
      sudo mv /srv/forgejo /srv/forgejo.old
      bash -x /home/debian/run-forgejo.sh
    • /home/debian/v7.nftables 
      add table ip v7;
      flush table ip v7;
      add chain ip v7 prerouting {
        type nat hook prerouting priority 0;
        policy accept;
        ip daddr 65.21.67.65 tcp dport { 2070 } dnat to 10.6.83.179;
      };
    • Add to iface enp5s0 inet static in /etc/network/interfaces 
      up nft -f /home/debian/v7.nftables
    - `/etc/nginx/sites-available/v7.forgejo.org` same as `/etc/nginx/sites-available/code.forgejo.org`

  • static-pages on hetzner02

    See the static pages documenation for more information.

    • Unprivileged

  • runner-forgejo-helm on hetzner03

    Dedicated to https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/forgejo-helm and running from an ephemeral disk

Uberspace

The website https://forgejo.org is hosted at https://uberspace.de/. The https://codeberg.org/forgejo/website/ CI has credentials to push HTML pages there.