Forgejo

I have projects on my local machine that nobody else has seen. Not because the ideas were bad, but because getting from localhost to a real URL felt like too much work. Setting up a server takes time. So does DNS, SSL, and deployment scripts. By the time it’s all done, the motivation is usually gone.

A walkthrough of migrating this blog off AWS (CodeCommit + CodeBuild + S3 + CloudFront) onto a self-hosted stack using Forgejo for git and CI/CD. Most of the config was written by Claude Code. The old AWS stack was four services doing what two containers now do. The migration was part of a consolidation onto Oracle Cloud free tier VMs. The target infrastructure was already there: a Forgejo instance on one VM and a Docker/Traefik apps server on another.