Replaces Bitbucket
European alternatives to Bitbucket
Git hosting and CI from European providers
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Bitbucket is the Git hosting service from Atlassian, the Australian company behind Jira and Confluence. It offers private and public repositories, pull requests with branch permissions, and Pipelines for continuous integration, and it links tightly to Jira issues so commits and branches show up next to the tickets they belong to. That integration is the main reason teams on the Atlassian stack end up there.
Source code is the asset a software company can least afford to place casually, and the same repositories usually carry deployment secrets and customer specific configuration. Moving to a European alternative to Bitbucket keeps the repositories, the build runners and the contract inside the EU or EFTA. GitLab offers an integrated platform with CI built in, GitLab by Stackhero provides it as a managed European instance, and Codeberg, Forgejo and Gitea are lighter options for hosted or self-run Git.
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Our pick
GitLab by Stackhero
Managed GitLab hosting from France
GitLab by Stackhero is a managed GitLab service run from France by Stackhero. GitLab is an open source version control service that also covers issues, wikis, pages and CI/CD pipelines. Each instance runs on a private virtual machine with a dedicated IPv4 address, and one GitLab Runner is included, with more available.
FranceEU hosted♻
GitLab
Open core, self-hosted version control
Open sourceOpen source
Codeberg
Git hosting for open source from Germany
GermanyEU hosted
Forgejo
Open source, self-hosted Git forge
Open sourceOpen sourceSelf-hosted and open source
Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.
Questions
How do I move repositories off Bitbucket?
Git repositories are portable: you add the new remote and push all branches and tags. Issues and pull requests need a separate step, and GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo each ship importers for that metadata.
Which European alternative is closest to Bitbucket?
GitLab is the nearest match, since it combines repositories, merge requests and built-in CI in one product. GitLab by Stackhero is the same software offered as a managed instance if you would rather not run it.
Is there a free European option for hosting Git?
Codeberg hosts projects for the open source community, and Forgejo and Gitea are freely licensed if you run them yourself. Read Codeberg's own conditions to see whether your project fits what they host.