Kanboard

Kanboard is a Kanban tool, developed by Frédéric Guillot. (Who also happens to be the developer of my favorite RSS reader, Miniflux)

Features include:

Visualize your work
Limit your work in progress to be more efficient
Customize your boards according to your business activities
Multiple projects with the ability to drag and drop tasks
Reports and analytics
Fast and simple to use
Access from anywhere with a modern browser
Plugins and integrations with external services
Free, open source and self-hosted
Super simple installation

Kanboard screenshot

Kanboard Requirements

Ingredients

Already deployed:

Docker swarm cluster with persistent shared storage
Traefik configured per design
DNS entry for the hostname you intend to use (or a wildcard), pointed to your keepalived IP

Traefik Forward Auth or Authelia to secure your Traefik-exposed services with an additional layer of authentication

Preparation

Setup data locations

Create the location for the bind-mount of the application data, so that it's persistent:

mkdir -p /var/data/kanboard

Kanboard Docker Swarm config

Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like the example below:

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version: '3'

services:
  kanboard:
    image: kanboard/kanboard
    volumes:
     - /var/data/kanboard:/var/www/app/
    networks:
      - traefik_public
    deploy:
      labels:
        # traefik common
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.docker.network=traefik_public

        # traefikv1
        - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:kanboard.example.com
        - traefik.port=80     

        # traefikv2
        - "traefik.http.routers.kanboard.rule=Host(`kanboard.example.com`)"
        - "traefik.http.services.kanboard.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
        - "traefik.enable=true"

networks:
  traefik_public:
    external: true

Serving

Launch Kanboard stack

Launch the Kanboard stack by running docker stack deploy kanboard -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>

Log into your new instance at https://YOUR-FQDN. Default credentials are admin/admin, after which you can change (under 'profile') and add more users.

Chef's notes 📓

The default theme can be significantly improved by applying the ThemePlus plugin. ↩
Kanboard becomes more useful when you integrate in/outbound email with MailGun, SendGrid, or Postmark. ↩

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