Gitea is simple to package and run, so I just install a single package and enable a systemd service. Gitlab is really designed to run on kubernetes, and while

Gitea is simple to package and run, so I just install a single package and enable a systemd service. Gitlab is really designed to run on kubernetes, and while there's plenty of self hosters willing to run overkill infra locally, has proved to be enough of a pain for enough people to run that it limited its growth in that space.