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#916

After many years of maintaining this chart alongside @justusbunsi, I am also stepping down as a maintainer.
In the following, I want to inform users about the reasons.

I am on an independent journey since ~ 1 year, which brought many new challenges and responsibilities.
Since then I have created many devops-related assets (charts, Ansible role, images) which I am now curating as part of my professional work.
Besides, I have also continued with all my FOSS-related efforts. This has summed up to ~ 20-30 projects for which I am either in a primary or secondary maintainer role.
While I have a lot of fun in this, I need to ensure to not go beyond my limits and focus on the ones which I also use in my daily dev & professional life.

Gitea isn't among these anymore since some time, which brings me to the second part of why I am stepping down:
After thinking about it for a long time and being torn between worlds, I've decided to go with Forgejo instead of Gitea for most instances I am running/maintaining.
Since then, I have used the Gitea helm chart to deploy these. This has worked out great and without issues and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

However, it lately started to feel "wrong", i.e. to continue using the Gitea chart for Forgejo deployments, especially after both projects have substantially diverged some time ago already and a Forgejo Helm Chart exists since some time. Also, I had the feeling of not being able to "commit" to one of the projects fully, being involved in both.
After launching [CodeFloe](https://codefloe.com) a few weeks ago, a public Forgejo instance, I came to the conclusion to step down as a maintainer and focus on the software that I use daily.

And as I like be fully transparent: I don't wanna hold back on the fact that I was also missing the community spirit from "the old days" quite a bit lately, both in the Discord server and the discussions in the chart. The ratio of low-quality requests in the Chart increased a lot over the last ~ 1.5 years, while at the same time the average response times of Gitea core member increased to weeks.

I hope the Gitea community can turn this around again and create a welcoming place to which its fun to contribute to in one's spare time. I enjoyed it for the most part and want to thank everyone who supported me during this time, for the general trust in Chart-related decisions, and the opportunity to personally improve on Helm chart management in general.

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/helm-gitea/pulls/918
Co-authored-by: pat-s <patrick.schratz@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: pat-s <patrick.schratz@gmail.com>

.gitea/workflows/changelog.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   changelog:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: docker.io/thegeeklab/git-sv:2.0.2
+    container: docker.io/thegeeklab/git-sv:2.0.3
     steps:
       - name: install tools
         run: |

.gitea/workflows/release-version.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install helm
         env:
           # renovate: datasource=docker depName=alpine/helm
-          HELM_VERSION: "3.18.3"
+          HELM_VERSION: "3.18.4"
         run: |
           curl --fail --location --output /dev/stdout --silent --show-error https://get.helm.sh/helm-v${HELM_VERSION}-linux-$(dpkg --print-architecture).tar.gz | tar --extract --gzip --file /dev/stdin
           mv linux-$(dpkg --print-architecture)/helm /usr/local/bin/
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
   release-gitea:
     needs: generate-chart-publish
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: docker.io/thegeeklab/git-sv:2.0.2
+    container: docker.io/thegeeklab/git-sv:2.0.3
     steps:
       - name: install tools
         run: |

.gitea/workflows/test-pr.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   check-and-test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: alpine/helm:3.18.3
+    container: alpine/helm:3.18.4
     steps:
       - name: install tools
         run: |

CODEOWNERS

@@ -1 +1 @@
-charts/* @justusbunsi @pat-s
+charts/* 

Chart.lock

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 dependencies:
 - name: postgresql
   repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-  version: 16.7.18
+  version: 16.7.21
 - name: postgresql-ha
   repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-  version: 16.0.21
+  version: 16.0.22
 - name: valkey-cluster
   repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-  version: 3.0.17
+  version: 3.0.18
 - name: valkey
   repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-  version: 3.0.20
+  version: 3.0.22
-digest: sha256:e1f16b15a258aae5fc616f3456cc65944a86ad23e550f1496819d6fbd50849a8
+digest: sha256:96a5d8b084c2558569064245792a7d882c8d0822da2f69fa6423ed682c6861bd
-generated: "2025-07-13T00:04:14.694033908Z"
+generated: "2025-07-26T00:04:25.213432532Z"

Chart.yaml

@@ -27,29 +27,25 @@ maintainers:
     email: konrad.lother@novum-rgi.de
   - name: Lucas Hahn
     email: lucas.hahn@novum-rgi.de
-  - name: Steven Kriegler
-    email: sk.bunsenbrenner@gmail.com
-  - name: Patrick Schratz
-    email: patrick.schratz@gmail.com
 
 dependencies:
   # https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/postgresql
   - name: postgresql
     repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-    version: 16.7.18
+    version: 16.7.21
     condition: postgresql.enabled
   # https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/postgresql-ha/Chart.yaml
   - name: postgresql-ha
     repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-    version: 16.0.21
+    version: 16.0.22
     condition: postgresql-ha.enabled
   # https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/valkey-cluster/Chart.yaml
   - name: valkey-cluster
     repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-    version: 3.0.17
+    version: 3.0.18
     condition: valkey-cluster.enabled
   # https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/valkey/Chart.yaml
   - name: valkey
     repository: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts
-    version: 3.0.20
+    version: 3.0.22
     condition: valkey.enabled

README.md

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 - [Metrics and profiling](#metrics-and-profiling)
   - [Secure Metrics Endpoint](#secure-metrics-endpoint)
 - [Pod annotations](#pod-annotations)
+- [TLS certificate rotation](#tls-certificate-rotation)
 - [Themes](#themes)
 - [Renovate](#renovate)
 - [Parameters](#parameters)
@@ -62,6 +63,8 @@
 [Gitea](https://gitea.com) is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go.
 It is published under the MIT license.
 
+> :warning: This chart is currently unmaintained and in desperate need of a new maintainer. If you want to apply as a maintainer, please comment on [#916](https://gitea.com/gitea/helm-gitea/issues/916)
+
 ## Introduction
 
 This helm chart has taken some inspiration from [jfelten's helm chart](https://github.com/jfelten/gitea-helm-chart).
@@ -101,8 +104,8 @@ These dependencies are enabled by default:
 
 Alternatively, the following non-HA replacements are available:
 
-- PostgreSQL ([Bitnami PostgreSQL](<Postgresql](https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/postgresql/Chart.yaml)>))
+- PostgreSQL ([Bitnami PostgreSQL](https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/postgresql/Chart.yaml))
-- Valkey ([Bitnami Valkey](<Valkey](https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/valkey/Chart.yaml)>))
+- Valkey ([Bitnami Valkey](https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/valkey/Chart.yaml))
 
 ### Dependency Versioning
 
@@ -816,6 +819,31 @@ gitea:
   podAnnotations: {}
 ```
 
+## TLS certificate rotation
+
+If Gitea uses TLS certificates that are mounted as a secret in the container file system, Gitea will not automatically apply them when the TLS certificates are rotated.
+Such a rotation can be for example triggered, when the cert-manager issues new TLS certificates before expiring. Further information is described as GitHub
+[issue](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/27962).
+
+Until the issue is present, a workaround can be applied.
+For example stakater's [reloader](https://github.com/stakater/Reloader) controller can be used to trigger a rolling update.
+The following annotation must be added to instruct the reloader controller to trigger a rolling update, when the mounted `configMaps` and `secrets` have been changed.
+
+```yaml
+deployment:
+  annotations:
+    reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
+```
+
+Instead of triggering a rolling update for configMap and secret resources, this action can also be defined for individual items.
+For example, when the secret named `gitea-tls` is mounted and the reloader controller should only listen for changes of this secret:
+
+```yaml
+deployment:
+  annotations:
+    secret.reloader.stakater.com/reload: "gitea-tls"
+```
+
 ## Themes
 
 Custom themes can be added via k8s secrets and referencing them in `values.yaml`.
@@ -1217,7 +1245,7 @@ If you miss this, blindly upgrading may delete your Postgres instance and you ma
   To deploy and use "Actions", please see the new dedicated chart at <https://gitea.com/gitea/helm-actions>.
   It is maintained by a seperate maintainer group and hasn't seen a release yet (at the time of the 12.0 release).
   Feel encouraged to contribute if "Actions" is important to you!
-  
+
   This change was made to avoid overloading the existing helm chart, which is already quite large in size and configuration options.
   In addition, the existing maintainers team was not actively using "Actions" which slowed down development and community contributions.
   While the new chart is still young (and waiting for contributions! and maintainers), we believe that it is the best way moving forward for both parts.

package-lock.json

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@bitnami/readme-generator-for-helm": {
-      "version": "2.7.1",
+      "version": "2.7.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@bitnami/readme-generator-for-helm/-/readme-generator-for-helm-2.7.1.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@bitnami/readme-generator-for-helm/-/readme-generator-for-helm-2.7.2.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-HCt4wdEVYfPPVX8P6be8LgejVPEHJvnXXJBErdcSWmNgbbXowJhFwnB1uTdzkT00kqSBd8KQMdzjoQFGgv2/Ww==",
+      "integrity": "sha512-7eXyJzxQTQj2ajpHlIhadciCCYWOqN8ieaweU25bStHOZowQ2c2CQyjO/bX4gxIf73LoRKxHhEYgLTllJY9SIw==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {