GitHub, Github Actions, and the GitHub Container Registry have been how I've been handling builds, but it's been slow, and it's started to seem absurd to have all these builds occurring in some random datacenter presumably on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, that I am then pulling back to a server in Europe.

I started fishing around for a locally hosted replacement, coming across Forgejo, Woodpecker CI, and OneDev in addition to more familiar names like GitLab and SourceHut.

At some point it occurred to me that this was a lot of ceremony for something relatively simple. How hard could it be just to have a git remote and hang some builds off it? I'm not trying to launch my own GitHub here.