diff --git a/services/gitea/gitea-runner.service.toml b/services/gitea/gitea-runner.service.toml
index e50bfde..a9a20bb 100644
--- a/services/gitea/gitea-runner.service.toml
+++ b/services/gitea/gitea-runner.service.toml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ user = "podman"
 [service]
 name = "gitea-runner"
 image = "docker.io/gitea/act_runner:latest"
+depend = ["gitea.service"]
 
 [environment]
 GITEA_INSTANCE_URL = "gitea"
diff --git a/services/gitea/service.toml b/services/gitea/service.toml
index 1dee8f5..b2da2fb 100644
--- a/services/gitea/service.toml
+++ b/services/gitea/service.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ GITEA__database__PASSWD = "welcome123"
 GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN_FILE = "/run/secrets/gitea-runner-registration-token"
 GITEA_CUSTOM = "/etc/gitea/custom"
 
+[[secrets]]
+key = "gitea-runner-registration-token"
+
 [[networks]]
 name = "gitea-net"
 group = "caddy"
diff --git a/services/gitea/update.sh b/services/gitea/update.sh
index 1c024b0..6a04b76 100644
--- a/services/gitea/update.sh
+++ b/services/gitea/update.sh
@@ -7,4 +7,8 @@ mkdir -p /var/containers/gitea/runner
 cp -f ./runner-config.yaml /var/containers/gitea/runner/config.yaml
 cp -f ./custom /var/containers/gitea/config/custom
 
-chown -R podman:podman /var/containers/gitea
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+chown -R podman:podman /var/containers/gitea
+
+# Create gitea database if it doesn't exist; using PostgreSQL
+cd /tmp
+su -c "podman exec -it postgres psql -U admin -c 'CREATE DATABASE gitea;'" podman
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