Self-hosted personal DevOps platform — built by engineers, for engineers.
Gisia is an open-source, DevOps platform designed for individuals and small teams who want full control over their development workflow. It provides essential Git hosting, CI/CD automation, issue tracking.
🤔 Why Choose Gisia?
- Private — your code stays on your server.
- Lightweight — lean code, fast responses.
- Full control — no vendor lock-in, no usage limits, no surprise pricing.
- Open source — full transparency, every line of code is yours to read and trust.
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Warning
This project is under active development and may contain bugs or breaking changes between versions.
- Regularly back up your repositories, configurations, and data — always before upgrading.
- Features and APIs may change without notice.
🛠️ Installation
# Initialize and start Gisia mkdir gisia && cd gisia docker pull gisia/init:latest docker run --rm -v ./:/output gisia/init:latest cp .env.example .env docker compose up -d # Get your root password docker exec -it gisia-web cat /rails/initial_root_password
⏫ Upgrade
check the docs/releases to see how to upgrade to a specified version
🚀 Features
| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| User Authentication | ✅ Done | Local accounts |
| Git Repository Hosting | ✅ Done | Lightweight Git server with SSH and HTTP(S) access |
| CI/CD Pipelines | ✅ Done | Basic runner support and pipeline definitions in YAML |
| Issue Tracking | ✅ Done | Simple issue board for personal or small team usage |
| Merge Requests | ✅ Done | Inline diffs and comment threads |
| Webhooks | ✅ Done | Webhooks to call URL of 3rd party services |
| AI Bot Skills | ✅ Done | Machine-readable skill files, so AI bots can clone, push, and manage issues and epics via the API |
| Code Review | ✅ Done | Comment notifications |
| Namespace Runners | 🔜 Working on | Project/Group level runners |
💡 Dev Philosophy
Gisia is built with these principles in mind:
- Developer-first design — prioritizing tools and workflows that enhance developer productivity.
- Transparency — open source, auditable codebase.
- Simplicity over complexity — lightweight core, no heavy dependencies
🤝 Contributing
Thank you for your interest in Gisia! This repository is currently a mirror of our main development branch. We are not accepting community contributions at this time.
We appreciate your support and understanding — please feel free to open an issue to share feedback or suggestions.
Legal Note
All contributions are subject to the Contributor License Agreement.
Thank you for helping improve the project!
📄 License
This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).
Please refer to the NOTICE and .licenses folders for detailed information on third-party licenses.
⚠️ Third-Party References Disclaimer
You may notice references to "GitLab" in server responses, logs, or internal messages. These come from reused GitLab FOSS (MIT-licensed) components or code segments.
Gisia is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with GitLab Inc. All trademarks and brand names belong to their respective owners.