This blog post has been updated with additional details and was originally published on 03-14-2022. Adding storage to an OpenShift cluster can greatly increase the types of workloads you can run, including workloads such as OpenShift Virtualization, or databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Persistent volumes can be supplied in many different ways within OpenShift including using LocalVolumes, or OpenShift Data Foundation, or provided by an underlying Cloud Provider such as the vSphere provider.

I continue to find that my Synology NAS arrays are the most versatile devices in my home lab. I run many small “helper” services on my arrays through the use of the Docker service built into the 6.x and 7.x releases of the Synology DSM. What are these helper services that I am running? Things like “Grafana”, “Prometheus”, “Minio” and the topic for discussion today “Gitea”. What is Gitea? From their website it is “Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go.