What is FocalBoard?
Focalboard is an open source, multilingual, self-hosted project management tool that's an alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. It helps define, organize, track and manage work across individuals and teams. -https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard
Installing Docker
- Log into the Linux based device
- Run the following commands in the terminal
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates git 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 - $USER
Running FocalBoard
- Now that Docker is installed, run the following commands to setup the FocalBoard Docker container and run it
# create working directories
mkdir ~/docker/focalboard/files -p
# set owner of working directories
sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
# allow the container to write to working directories
sudo chmod a+rwx -R ~/docker/focalboard
# run focalboard container
docker run -d --name focalboard -v ~/docker/focalboard/:/opt/focalboard/data -p 8000:8000 --restart=unless-stopped mattermost/focalboard - Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8000
- Click the link to create an account
- Completed the form by entering an email, username and password > Click Register
- Welcome to FocalBoard running in Docker
Source: https://www.focalboard.com/download/personal-edition/docker/