Gitea sadly has some issues (for example, the "Public Activity" tab on user profiles 500's atm: https://try.gitea.io/crackedmind?tab=activity; it throws 500's everywhere once you throw on a modern Xeon more than 30 users/second at it, because it doesn't cache database accesses, at all, etc).
Also, I don’t seem to be able to properly run it in docker (I’m trying to deploy it on kubernetes), do you, by random chance, have experience with deploying gitea?
Sorry, I don't know about running it in docker. My usecase is personal lightweight repos management, so I just download the binary and run it backed by SQLite. Never faced any issues with that. I never needed to go fancy with docker.