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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
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- 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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# Postgres
PostgreSQL is the database backend for Gitea. It runs on the same podman network as Gitea and holds the repository metadata, users, and issue data.
**Host:** Dankclaw — **Docs:** https://www.postgresql.org/docs
## Facts
| Item | Value |
|------|-------|
| Image | `docker.io/library/postgres:16-alpine` |
| Port | 5432 (internal only) |
| Data volume | bind mount at `/var/lib/postgresql/data` |
## Configuration
```yaml
services:
postgres:
image: docker.io/library/postgres:16-alpine
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: gitea
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD}"
POSTGRES_DB: gitea
volumes:
- /opt/gitea/data/gitea-postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
```
## Gitea Connection
Gitea reaches the database over the `systemd-gitea` network (quadlet-managed live, compose-managed after the full-stack deploy):
```yaml
environment:
DATABASE_TYPE: postgres
DATABASE_HOST: gitea-postgres
DATABASE_NAME: gitea
DATABASE_USER: gitea
DATABASE_PASSWD: "${GITEA_DB_PASSWORD}"
```
The live `app.ini` on the host overrides env vars. When you rename the database container, update its `[database] HOST` line. See [[Gitea]] Gotchas.
## Migration
The live Gitea stack on Dankclaw already runs this image with the data at `/opt/gitea/data/gitea-postgres`. The migration keeps the bind mount in place; see [[Gitea]].
## Healthcheck
Use `pg_isready`:
```yaml
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U gitea"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
retries: 3
```
## Gotchas
- The database password must match between the `postgres` service and Gitea's `DATABASE_PASSWD`; both come from the same `.env` variable.
- Do not change the Gitea `SECRET_KEY` or `INTERNAL_TOKEN` after migration — encrypted data becomes unreadable.
- Back up with `pg_dump`; see [[Gitea Data Persistence]] (knowledge base).
## See Also
- [[Gitea]]
- [[Dankclaw Stack]]