Codebahn
Managed Git hosting and CI for European developers and small teams, on EU-only infrastructure.
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About Codebahn
Codebahn is a managed Git hosting and CI service for private software projects, operated by Hackerman AB in Gothenburg, Sweden. Built on Forgejo, it provides repositories, issues, pull requests, package and container registries, hosted Linux CI, bring-your-own runners, migration and mirroring tools, and organization export.
The declared customer-data path stays in the EU: primary compute and storage run on Scaleway in Paris, with daily client-side-encrypted backups on Hetzner in Falkenstein. Codebahn publishes its DPA and data-processing provider list.
Features
- Private Git hosting with issues, pull requests, releases, and package and container registries.
- Forgejo Actions CI accepts most GitHub Actions workflow files without renaming.
- EU-hosted Linux CI runners use isolated, ephemeral virtual machines for each job.
- Three hosted runner sizes plus bring-your-own runners for other hardware.
- Import from GitHub, GitLab, or Forgejo and continuously mirror GitHub repositories.
- Organization exports include Git history, issues, pull requests, reviews, and releases.
- All repositories are private, and authenticated application pages have no analytics.
- A built-in MCP server and open-source CLI cover repositories, issues, CI, and search.
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Sovereignty Scorecard
Procurement-grade signals on data sovereignty, ownership, and EU residency.
We score every European vendor against six sovereignty dimensions captured in the SHIELD acronym. Each card below maps to one letter — read them as a checklist when comparing providers.
Third parties that may touch customer data, such as processors, subprocessors, payment providers, KYC vendors, support chatbots, analytics, and independent controllers disclosed by the vendor.
Where the legal entity sits, who controls it, and which subsidiaries operate under the same group.
Where customer data is physically stored, who runs the hosting stack, which CDN sits in front.
Whether public sources indicate the vendor or its data-processing third parties may fall under the US CLOUD Act or other extraterritorial reach.
Public terms, privacy policy, DPA, subprocessor list, impressum, and security or trust pages.
Independent audits and certifications (ISO 27001, BSI C5, TISAX, SOC 2) plus open-source transparency.
Bootstrapped
Codebahn describes Hackerman AB as independent, Swedish-owned, self-funded, and customer-funded. Public registry-derived information identifies founder Simon Nordberg as its controlling owner and reports no corporate group.
🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Sweden
Hackerman AB
Fixed region
The primary service runs in Scaleway's Paris region. Daily client-side-encrypted backups are stored with Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany.
Website: Scaleway Paris, served via Caddy with no CDN signature observed
Application: Scaleway Paris; hosted CI uses isolated, ephemeral virtual machines
Email: Proton Mail, Switzerland
CDN: No CDN observed on the main site
| Name | Country | Role | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scaleway | 🇫🇷 France | Subprocessor | Compute, object storage, PostgreSQL, container registry, transactional email, and observability. |
| Hetzner | 🇩🇪 Germany | Subprocessor | Client-side-encrypted backup storage. |
| Mollie | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | Subprocessor | Payment processing. |
| Crisp | 🇫🇷 France | Subprocessor | In-application support chat. |
Pricing
€9
- Unlimited private repositories
- 2 GiB Git storage and 50 GiB object storage
- Bring-your-own runners
- Hosted CI available through minute top-ups
- Container registry
€19
- 1,000 hosted CI minutes per month
- 2 GiB Git storage and 50 GiB object storage per seat
- Two to eight concurrent jobs
- Bring-your-own runners
- Container registry
Contact
- GPU, ARM, and larger runners
- Higher concurrency
- Dedicated support
Questions & Answers
5 questions
Who operates and owns Codebahn?
Codebahn is operated by Hackerman AB, a Swedish limited company registered as 559079-1918 and based in Gothenburg. Codebahn identifies Simon Nordberg as its founder and describes the business as independent, Swedish-owned, self-funded, and customer-funded. Public registry-derived information identifies Nordberg as its controlling owner and says Hackerman AB is not part of a corporate group.
Where are repositories, builds, and backups stored?
Codebahn states that customer data, primary compute, storage, databases, registries, CI runners, and observability stay in Scaleway's Paris region. Daily backups are encrypted client-side with Restic and stored on Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany. The hosted service does not offer a customer-selectable region.
Is Codebahn exposed to the US CLOUD Act?
No US exposure is identified in Codebahn's published service-provider chain for customer data. The Swedish operator lists only EU-incorporated providers for that path. Customer-selected external Actions and optional GitHub import or mirroring can still introduce third parties chosen by the customer.
Can repositories be migrated in and exported again?
Codebahn documents imports from GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo plus continuous GitHub pull mirrors. Its organization export produces an archive containing Git history and Forgejo-compatible metadata for issues, pull requests, comments, reviews, releases, labels, and milestones.
Which parts of Codebahn are open source?
The hosted service is built on Forgejo, but Codebahn's current open-source page says its managed-service fork is proprietary. The separate Codebahn CLI is publicly available under the MIT license, while data exports use standard Git and Forgejo-compatible formats.
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Sources & provenance
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Profile content
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.net
- primary · termscodebahn.net/terms
- primary · security-pagecodebahn.net/security
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.netThe hosted service and current public documentation are presented in English.
- primary · pricing-pagecodebahn.net/pricingThe live pricing page and current terms agree on Solo and Crew; older documentation still shows a superseded plan structure.
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.net
- primary · othercodebahn.net/docs/features/ci-runners
- primary · othercodebahn.net/docs/reference/export
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.net/about
- primary · othercodebahn.net/docs/reference/sovereignty
- primary · othercodebahn.net/open-source
Sovereignty (SHIELD)
- primary · subprocessor-listcodebahn.net/docs/reference/subprocessors
- primary · termscodebahn.net/terms
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.net/about
- tertiary · otherwww.bolagsfakta.se/5590791918-Hackerman_ABRegistry-derived ownership and group information.
- primary · dpacodebahn.net/dpa
- primary · subprocessor-listcodebahn.net/docs/reference/subprocessors
- primary · security-pagecodebahn.net/security
- primary · dns-recordscodebahn.netWebsite resolved to Scaleway Paris and mail records resolved to Proton Mail.
- primary · othercodebahn.net/docs/reference/sovereignty
- primary · subprocessor-listcodebahn.net/docs/reference/subprocessors
- primary · impressumcodebahn.net/legal
- primary · othercodebahn.net/open-sourceThe hosted service's managed fork is described as proprietary; the separate CLI is MIT-licensed.
Other
- primary · about-pagecodebahn.net/press