Gitea is a lot more than just a web UI. It's a whole multi-tenant platform if you need--it can act as an OAuth2 provider and drive SSO, login, etc. for all kinds of other apps or services. You could even have gitea used as a login/auth for a kubernetes cluster (with dex). It's like gitlab but way less documentation and slightly less polish.

> it can act as an OAuth2 provider and drive SSO, login, etc. for all kinds of other apps or services.

Can I get a link to documentation/discussion on that?

OAuth2 provider config: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/oauth2-provider/

For dex (k8s auth), specifically: https://dexidp.io/docs/connectors/gitea/

Hooking it up to do SSO for other OAuth/OIDC apps is pretty similar. For something that doesn't do OAuth you could use vouch proxy in front of it and get SSO: https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/issues/203

It's really slick and fun to throw gitea on a cheap VPS, then a few apps like drone CI, a k3s kubernetes cluster, etc. and have it all just interoperate and auth together seamlessly. I won't lie though it's an enormous amount of annoying and badly documented work to get it all together.

> bare-git is fine if you don't need any web presence.

cgit or gitweb can be nice additions to bare git for simple repository browsing without the full 'project managment' aspects that gitlab/gitea/redmine etc. add

Are there any nicer interfaces for gitweb? The basic functionality (just browsing a repo) is perfect but it's not the prettiest.

Edit: this looks like what I mean, just so happens to be github style but that's not a requirement! https://github.com/kogakure/gitweb-theme