# Developer tools & data

Host a repository, database, internal tool or analytics service beside the application it supports.

Canonical: https://xcloud.host/use-cases/explore/developer-data/

Browse applications, compare what they need, and use the linked guides for the workflows they cover.

## Example situations

- A small engineering team wants a private Gitea repository and an owner for backups and upgrades.
- An operations analyst needs a Metabase dashboard connected to a reporting database without exposing credentials to viewers.

## Decide your route

1. Separate source control, operational data, internal interfaces and reporting into the right workloads.
2. Verify network access, database privileges, persistent storage and application-specific setup.
3. Test a read, write or report with least-privilege users and rehearse recovery from a known backup.

## Applications to explore

Examples from the xCloud app catalog. Check setup and availability for the app you choose.

- **Gitea** (Git & Repos): A lightweight self-hosted Git service with pull requests, issues, releases and a package registry, small enough to run beside your other apps. [Browse](https://xcloud.host/one-click-apps/#library)
- **PostgreSQL** (Databases): Advanced open-source relational database built for reliability, extensibility and demanding transactional or analytical workloads. [Browse](https://xcloud.host/one-click-apps/#library)
- **Metabase** (Analytics): Point it at your database and ask questions in a visual query builder or SQL, then collect the answers into dashboards your whole team can read. [Browse](https://xcloud.host/one-click-apps/metabase/)
- **Appsmith** (Developer Tools): A low-code platform for building internal tools and admin panels on top of your existing databases and APIs, using drag-and-drop widgets and JavaScript. [Browse](https://xcloud.host/one-click-apps/appsmith/)

## Included catalog categories

- Developer Tools: 37 entries
- Git & Repos: 4 entries
- Databases: 30 entries
- Analytics: 13 entries

## Related published guides

- [Deploy Gitea for a small development team](https://xcloud.host/use-cases/workflows/deploy-gitea-for-a-small-development-team/): Direct Gitea deployment workflow.
- [Deploy Metabase for internal reporting](https://xcloud.host/use-cases/workflows/deploy-metabase-for-internal-reporting/): Direct Metabase deployment workflow.
- [Operate a self-hosted database workload](https://xcloud.host/use-cases/operations/operate-a-self-hosted-database-workload/): Related database workload operations; database setup remains app-specific.

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