Running Kanboard Visual Todo and Tasks Management in Docker on Linux

What is Kanboard?

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. -https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard

Installing Docker

  1. Log into the Linux based device
  2. Run the following commands in the terminal
    # install prerequisites
    sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
    # add docker gpg key
    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    # add docker software repository
    sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
    # install docker
    sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
    # enable and start docker service
    sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
    # add the current user to the docker group
    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
    # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
    su - $USER

Running Kanboard

  1. Now that Docker is installed, run the following commands to setup the Kanboard Docker container and run it
    # create working directories
    mkdir /home/$USER/docker/mariadb -p
    # set owner of working directories
    sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" /home/"$USER"/docker -R
    # create kanboard network
    docker network create containers
    # run the mariadb docker container
    docker run -d --name mariadb --network containers --network-alias db -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=r00tp@ss -e MYSQL_USER=kanboard_rw -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=Kanb0r4! -e MYSQL_DATABASE=kanboard -v /home/$USER/docker/mariadb:/var/lib/mysql --restart=unless-stopped mariadb:latest
    # run the kanboard docker container
    docker run -d --name kanboard --network containers -p 8086:80 -e DATABASE_URL='mysql://kanboard_rw:Kanb0r4!@db/kanboard' --restart=unless-stopped kanboard/kanboard:latest
  2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8086
  3. Login with the username admin and password admin
  4. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > My profile
  5. Click Edit profile from the left navigation
  6. Change the username and set a name and email as needed > Click Save
  7. Click Change password from the left navigation
  8. Enter admin as the Current password and enter and confirm a new secure password > Click Save
  9. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > Logout
  10. Log back in with the updated credentials
  11. Welcome to Kanboard

Documentation: https://hub.docker.com/r/kanboard/kanboard