"Gitea Administration and Deployment Guide" The "Gitea Administration and Deployment Guide" offers a comprehensive and authoritative resource for IT professionals, DevOps engineers, and systems architects tasked with deploying, scaling, and maintaining Gitea-the fast, lightweight, open-source Git hosting solution. Beginning with a clear exposition of Gitea's core architecture, ecosystem, and unique governance model, the guide equips readers to make informed decisions when comparing Gitea to other leading platforms such as GitHub and GitLab. Extensive detail is provided on supported operating environments, system requirements, and version management to ensure robust planning for any scale of deployment. Delving deeper, the book explores a full range of installation and deployment strategies, from binary and source builds to production-grade Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code solutions. Readers gain insight into advanced configuration topics, including security hardening, authentication integrations, access controls, and monitoring with modern observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana. With chapters devoted to seamless user and repository management, high availability, backup strategies, maintenance, and automation, professionals can establish highly resilient, efficient, and secure Gitea instances. Recognizing the demands of modern development teams, the guide also covers extensibility through plugin development, API integrations, and connection to third-party DevOps tools. Coverage extends to advanced scenarios, including multi-region and federated architectures, cloud-native patterns, and zero-trust networking for enterprise-grade deployments. A concluding section offers solutions to common operational challenges, best practices for migrating from GitHub and GitLab, and guidance on leveraging the thriving Gitea community-making this an invaluable end-to-end reference for Gitea administrators and strategists.