Deploying Gitea Using the Helm Chart

The myth of absolute public cloud convenience is officially dead. Driven by escalating infrastructure operational expenditures and strict data sovereignty laws, enterprises are shifting heavily toward cloud repatriation—bringing critical production workloads back on-premises. Because of this strategic pivot, modern DevOps and DevSecOps professionals must possess the capacity to construct and govern an autonomous, local cloud infrastructure. This hands-on chapter delivers that exact operational framework, utilizing Rancher and community-driven Helm charts to deploy a complete, self-hosted version control and CI/CD engine via Gitea and its dedicated actions runners. You will move past single-container setups to tackle real-world on-premises constraints, including persistent local storage configurations, dedicated databases, and secure Kubernetes Secrets.