I am experimenting with using forgejo instead of GitHub for my personal projects. So far I like it, however I would like to make it available to the outside world at some point.
I was wondering what kind of traps I should avoid. The following things come to mind so far:
- Forgejo Actions seem like a massive potential security risk, however I do not intend to enable sign up for other
- OpenID appears to be a thing for forgejo, I do not know how it works and it seems like it would allow access to my instance even with registering disabled
- I would put the instance behind a nginx as reverse proxy, but how do you keep bot traffic to a minimum? Anubis?
I feel like there are a ton of things I have not thought of, which is why I am holding off on making anything available without a VPN so far.
Yes, Check Anubis, scraper bots follow every link they find and especially git forges basically have infinite links (every single commit and comparison between every single commit and every other).
I haven’t thought it through but there may be some implications on opening port 22 for git via ssh.
Someone posted about git/scrapers here, pretty good read: https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers/?ref=selfh.st