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-## Manual deployment notes
+## Deployment notes
 ### Gitea
-1. Create admin user in web UI on initial setup
+1. `cd ./gitea`
+1. Run the script `./run-this-first.sh`
+1. Bring up the gitea cluster `docker compose up -d`
+1. Run the script `./initialize-gitea.sh`
+1. Note the access token printed, it will be needed to publish packages.