Git Server Installation & Admin on a VPS $($IaaS$)$

In this assignment, you will gain experience with a full$-$featured Git Server and its installation $/$ administration. You will be using a virtual personal server $($VPS$,$ sometimes also called $$virtual private server$)$ running on an infrastructure$-$as$-$a$-$service $($IaaS$).$

Note that later we will be writing Git hooks to control various communications via changes to the server$$s repositories. However, in this assignment, we will first acquaint ourselves with setting up our server instance, installing dependencies, building the Git server, and running it as a daemon process, etc.

Requirements

First, you will need a free account, where you will have access to your VPS$.$

Options are:

Amazon Web Services EC$2$

Digital Ocean Droplets

Kamatera

Once you have created a VPS instance and installed an appropriate OS distro $($a good one to use is Ubuntu Server, which should be a choice via the IaaS when you first configure your VPS$)$ you can proceed to the Git server installation.

Next, on your VPS$,$ you will need to at least install the following:

Git

Golang

Once the above are installed on your VPS$,$ you will then continue by cloning the Gogs repository.

Gogs will be our content management software for running software projects. It integrates a bug tracker, version management system $($front$-$end with interaction with the Git backend$),$ and other necessary tools for a software development team.

Once compiled, you should follow the project's installation procedure.

A few pointers:

Gogs requires changes to its configuration files prior to compilation as it builds this into the binary.

You should use systemctl to run Gogs as a daemon process upon booting the OS$.$

NOTE: You will need to install from source, not from the binary downloads provided on the Gogs site.

Rubric

Demonstrate proper VPS instantiation $($Screenshots$,$ README with URL, etc.$).$

Demonstrate installation of requirements $($Git$,$ Golang, clone of Gogs source etc.$).$

Demonstrate compilation, configuration, and installation of Gogs.

Requires making Gogs a daemon process upon boot. See footnotes.

Demonstrate that your Gogs service $($a Git server$)$ is available at the public IP provided by your cloud service for the VPS$.$

Demonstrate location of bare Git repos via account usage on the VPS$.$

First set up on your Gogs instance a user account, then create a git repo in that user account.

Show the location of the associated bare repository.

Three anonymous peer reviews assigned by Canvas will be required for full.