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