Self-Hosting Gitness (Harness Open Source): Modern Git Hosting with Built-In CI/CD

Self-Hosting Gitness (Harness Open Source): Modern Git Hosting with Built-In CI/CD Most self-hosted Git solutions make you bolt on CI/CD as an afterthought. You set up Gitea, then add Woodpecker or Drone, configure webhooks, manage two sets of credentials, and pray the integration doesn’t break during updates. Gitness — now officially Harness Open Source — takes a different approach. It’s a single binary that ships Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, code review, secret scanning, and cloud developer environments in one package. Born as the next generation of Drone CI, it inherits Drone’s container-native pipeline philosophy while adding a complete source control layer on top. ...

March 22, 2026 · 9 min · Self Host Setup

Self-Hosting Weblate: Continuous Localization Platform

Self-Hosting Weblate: Continuous Localization Platform Localization is one of those things that’s easy to ignore until it blocks a release. You’ve got translators waiting on developers to export strings, developers waiting on translators to finish, and a spreadsheet somewhere that nobody trusts anymore. Meanwhile your French translation is three versions behind and the German one has 47 fuzzy entries nobody’s reviewed. Weblate is an open-source continuous localization platform that plugs directly into your Git workflow. Translators work in a web UI, changes get committed back to your repository automatically, and you can see translation status at a glance across every language. It’s used by over 2,500 projects including LibreOffice, phpMyAdmin, and Fedora — so it handles real scale. ...

March 22, 2026 · 10 min · Self Host Setup