Open-source Bitbucket alternatives

Gitea is a software development service written in Go that you host yourself and that brings the usual tooling together in one place. It combines Git hosting, code management and review, issue tracking, project kanban boards, a wiki, team collaboration, a package registry and CI/CD, with the aim of being the easiest and least painful way to run your own code platform. Its topics place it in the same space as GitHub and GitLab.

Because it is written in Go, Gitea runs on any platform Go supports: Linux, macOS, the BSDs and Windows, across x86, amd64, ARM, RISC-V 64 and PowerPC processors. Package registries such as Maven, npm and Docker are mentioned in its topics, and its CI/CD system can reuse GitHub Actions workflows, which eases migration of existing pipelines. Documentation covers installation, administration and development.

The project is MIT licensed. You can try a public demo at demo.gitea.com, use the free service at gitea.com with a limited number of repositories, start a trial of the managed Gitea Cloud, or deploy the official container image on your own server. It suits teams and individuals who want control over their source code hosting.

Gogs is a self-hosted Git service that aims to be simple, stable and extensible and to be set up with as little pain as possible. Because it is written in Go, it can ship as a standalone binary on Linux, macOS, Windows and ARM-based systems, among other targets. It is released under the MIT license.

Features include a user dashboard, profiles and activity timeline, repository access over SSH, HTTP and HTTPS, and user, organization and repository management. Repositories get issues, pull requests, wikis, protected branches, webhooks for services like Slack, Discord and Dingtalk, Git hooks, deploy keys, Git LFS, mirroring and migration, a web file editor, and Jupyter Notebook and PDF rendering.

Authentication can use SMTP, LDAP, a reverse proxy, or GitHub accounts with two-factor support. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite3 are supported, and the interface is localized in over 30 languages. An experimental API is documented. Gogs suits individuals and small teams who want a lightweight private code host, including on modest hardware such as a Raspberry Pi.

Harness Open Source is a developer platform written in Go that bundles source code hosting, automated pipelines, hosted development environments and artifact registries in one product. The idea is to give a team a complete, self-run DevOps toolchain rather than separate services for repositories, builds and package storage.

Its hosted development environments are called Gitspaces, and the platform also includes registries for build artifacts. Harness is presented as the next generation of Drone: Drone focused only on continuous integration, whereas Harness adds code hosting and developer environments. The maintainers say the goal is eventual parity with Drone's pipeline capabilities so users can migrate, and a snapshot of Drone lives on a separate branch so it can keep developing.

You can run Harness locally from the published Docker image and open it on port 3000. The image stores its database and repositories in a volume, so a bind mount or named volume is strongly recommended to avoid losing data when the container stops. The project is Apache-2.0 licensed, with documentation at developer.harness.io.

GitLab is a platform for collaborating on code. This GitHub repository is a mirror of the Community Edition, written in Ruby on Rails, while the canonical source and all development take place on GitLab.com. Issues should be opened on the GitLab.com tracker rather than here. The platform manages Git repositories with fine-grained access controls, merge requests for code review, and per-project issue trackers, boards and wikis.

GitLab includes continuous integration and delivery pipelines to build, test and deploy applications. It follows an open-core model: most of the code is MIT-licensed, while files in the ee directory are proprietary but source-available. Three editions exist: Community Edition, free under the MIT Expat license; Enterprise Edition, with extra features aimed at organizations with more than 100 users and sold by subscription; and JiHu Edition for the Chinese market. A free trial of the Ultimate tier is available.

OneDev is a self-hosted platform that gathers Git hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, CI/CD, packages, a wiki and workspaces in one place. It is described as unified and autonomous, with AI teammates available to help with development work. The team develops OneDev on its own instance at code.onedev.io, where issues and pull requests are submitted.

The feature set emphasizes code review and quality. There is language-aware symbol search and navigation within any commit, fast code search with regular expressions, a Renovate integration that updates dependencies through pull requests which can merge automatically after approval or passing tests, and code annotated with coverage and problems found in the CI/CD pipeline. Discussions can be started on any code selection or diff and stay attached to the code, and versatile protection rules can require reviews or CI verification when particular users change particular files on particular branches. Topics also mention kanban boards.

OneDev is written in Java and licensed under MIT. You host it yourself, which suits teams wanting an all-in-one alternative to stitching together GitHub-like hosting, CI and project tools. Tutorials and demos on the project site show features such as dependency updates and protection rules in action.

GitBucket is a Git web platform powered by Scala. It aims for easy installation, an intuitive interface, high extensibility through plugins and API compatibility with GitHub, so teams can host their own repositories without a heavy setup.

Features include public and private repositories over HTTP, HTTPS and SSH, Git LFS support, a repository viewer with an online file editor, and issues, pull requests and a wiki for each repository. There is an activity timeline with email notifications, account and group management with LDAP integration, and a plugin system. Officially provided plugins cover gists, emoji, pages and notifications, and the community publishes more.

GitBucket requires Java 17. You download gitbucket.war and run it with java -jar, or deploy it to a servlet container that supports Servlet 3.0 such as Jetty or Tomcat. Data is stored under the user's home directory, which makes backup a matter of copying one folder. The code is Apache-2.0 licensed.

Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server aimed at people who live in the terminal. It is shipped as a single binary called soft, and starting a server is a matter of running soft serve, which creates a data directory holding repositories, SSH keys and the database.

Users can browse repositories, files and commits through a text user interface available over SSH, print file contents over SSH, optionally with syntax highlighting, and clone over SSH, HTTP or the Git protocol. Repositories can be created on demand by SSH or by pushing, and Git LFS is supported through HTTP and SSH backends. Access control uses SSH public keys, optional anonymous access, collaborators, public or private repositories and user access tokens.

Soft Serve is written in Go by the Charm team and released under the MIT licence. Packages exist for Alpine, Debian and RPM, binaries cover Linux, macOS and Windows, and a Docker image is available. It can also browse local repositories with soft browse.

Yona is a self-installed project collaboration platform that combines an issue tracker, discussion boards and code review with built-in source repositories. It supports Git, SVN and Mercurial, and the maintainers emphasize that an installable platform avoids worries about service shutdowns or data lock-in.

Issues are project-based and flexible, with moves between projects, subtasks, change history and templates. Code review works on individual code blocks with review threads and scores, and groups let you manage issues, posts, projects and members across an organization. Security options include LDAP, OAuth2 social login, two-factor authentication with TOTP and passkeys, SSH keys, GPG commit signature checks and deploy keys. Audit logs track important events.

This repository is a rewrite of the original Java and Play Framework application in Kotlin with Spring Boot, JPA and Thymeleaf on JDK 21, with the goal of keeping screens and behavior close to the legacy version. It works with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, CUBRID or embedded H2, adds scoped API tokens, an OAuth2 authorization server and a built-in MCP server for AI agents, and is licensed under Apache-2.0.