I found myself in a bit of a conundrum the other day. I’ve been using Jenkins on my laptop for a while, and it’s worked great, but I thought it’d be neat to turn one of my Raspberry Pis into a slave and get cross builds working. The problem though, is that I take my laptop with me to work and when I travel, and that means I’d have an offline build slave more than I’d like. I’d have the problem in reverse if I turned the Pi into the Jenkins master, but there was another problem: I’m addicted to Gentoo, and they don’t have Jenkins available for arm machines via portage.

The solution was obvious: set up another system that I could use as a Jenkins master that’d reliably be able to send jobs to the Pis. And, so long as I’m going to do that, I might as well get Gitea running on the new box.

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