fix: gitea boot persistence via quadlet (incident 2026-08-16)

unattended-upgrades rebooted dankclaw at 15:01; the legacy
podman-compose gitea stack had no systemd units, so rootless podman
did not auto-start the containers. Gitea was down ~1 hour.

- add quadlet units (dankclaw/gitea/quadlet/): gitea-postgres,
  gitea-server, gitea-caddy + gitea.network (DNS enabled; the default
  rootless podman network has dns_enabled=false)
- add gitea stack Caddyfile (upstream gitea-server:3000) and
  .env.example; live password stays in /opt/gitea/.env (0600)
- fix latent name bugs in main stack config: DATABASE_HOST
  gitea-postgres, Caddyfile upstream gitea-server
- docs: rewrite Gitea page for the quadlet stack (management, boot
  persistence, secrets, gotchas, incident log); fix port 3000 in
  stack table; Postgres connection notes
- legacy compose retired on target to /opt/gitea/.deprecated/
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# Gitea stack secrets. Copy to /opt/gitea/.env on dankclaw (mode 0600).
# The live password never enters this repo.
GITEA_DB_PASSWORD=changeme
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# Gitea stack Caddyfile (dedicated Caddy container, quadlet-managed).
# Lives on the host at /opt/gitea/data/caddy/Caddyfile.
# Upstream is the quadlet container name gitea-server (port 3000 inside).
gitea.franksdank.cloud {
reverse_proxy gitea-server:3000
}
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# Quadlet unit: Gitea Caddy reverse proxy (rootless, boot-persistent).
#
# Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/gitea-caddy.container
# Unit name: gitea-caddy.service (podman 5.x drops the container- prefix)
#
# Serves gitea.franksdank.cloud (public domain, DNS pending). The LAN
# reaches Gitea directly on port 3000. This file holds no secrets.
# See docs/Dankclaw/Gitea.md.
[Unit]
Description=Gitea Caddy reverse proxy container
Wants=gitea-server.service
After=gitea-server.service network.target
[Container]
ContainerName=gitea-caddy
Network=gitea.network
Image=docker.io/library/caddy:latest
PublishPort=80:80
PublishPort=443:443
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/caddy/site:/srv
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/caddy/config:/config
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/caddy/data:/root/.local/share/caddy
[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=900
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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# Quadlet unit: Gitea PostgreSQL (rootless, boot-persistent).
#
# Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/gitea-postgres.container
# Unit name: gitea-postgres.service (podman 5.x drops the container- prefix)
#
# The DB password lives in /opt/gitea/.env on the host (mode 0600).
# This file holds no secrets. See docs/Dankclaw/Gitea.md.
# The [Service] EnvironmentFile= line lets systemd expand
# ${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD} in the generated ExecStart.
[Unit]
Description=Gitea PostgreSQL container
After=network.target
[Container]
ContainerName=gitea-postgres
Network=gitea.network
Image=docker.io/library/postgres:16-alpine
EnvironmentFile=/opt/gitea/.env
Environment=POSTGRES_USER=gitea
Environment=POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD}
Environment=POSTGRES_DB=gitea
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/gitea-postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/opt/gitea/.env
TimeoutStartSec=900
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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# Quadlet unit: Gitea web server (rootless, boot-persistent).
#
# Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/gitea-server.container
# Unit name: gitea-server.service (podman 5.x drops the container- prefix)
#
# The [Service] EnvironmentFile= line lets systemd expand
# ${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD} in the generated ExecStart.
# The DB password lives in /opt/gitea/.env on the host (mode 0600).
# This file holds no secrets. See docs/Dankclaw/Gitea.md.
#
# Ports (live): 3000 = HTTP UI/API, 2222 = git SSH. The docs table in
# Dankclaw Stack.md historically said 3001; the live host port is 3000.
[Unit]
Description=Gitea web server container
Wants=gitea-postgres.service
After=gitea-postgres.service network.target
[Container]
ContainerName=gitea-server
Network=gitea.network
Image=docker.io/gitea/gitea:latest
EnvironmentFile=/opt/gitea/.env
Environment=DATABASE_TYPE=postgres
Environment=DATABASE_HOST=gitea-postgres
Environment=DATABASE_NAME=gitea
Environment=DATABASE_USER=gitea
Environment=DATABASE_PASSWD=${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD}
Environment=DATABASE_PORT=5432
Environment=USER_UID=1000
Environment=USER_GID=1000
PublishPort=0.0.0.0:3000:3000
PublishPort=2222:22
Volume=/opt/gitea/data/gitea-gitea:/data
Volume=/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
Volume=/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/opt/gitea/.env
TimeoutStartSec=900
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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# Quadlet network: private bridge for the Gitea stack (rootless).
#
# Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/gitea.network
# Unit name: gitea-network.service (podman network name: systemd-gitea)
#
# DNS is enabled by default for quadlet networks. This matters: the
# automatic "podman" default network has dns_enabled=false, so container
# names (gitea-postgres, gitea-server, gitea-caddy) would not resolve.
[Network]