Tiny HomeLab: Setup Kanboard

Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software. It’s lightweight, clean an great for managing personal and small projects.

To Setup

• Create an empty folder:

    mkdir kanboard
  

• Crete a file named docker-compose.yaml file in the directory kanboard.

    touch  kanboard/docker-compose.yaml
  

• Here is what the docker-compose.yaml should look like

  version: '2'
  services:
    kanboard:
      container_name: kanboard
      image: kanboard/kanboard:latest
      ports:
        - "4000:443"
      restart: always
      environment:
        - PLUGIN_INSTALLER=true
      volumes:
        - ./kanboard_data:/var/www/app/data
        - ./kanboard_plugins:/var/www/app/plugins
        - ./kanboard_ssl:/etc/nginx/ssl
  

• Create following folders inside kanboard directory:

    mkdir kanboard_data
    mkdir kanboard_plugins
    mkdir kanboard_ssl
  

• Start the docker with following command, this will download the images and start the container

    docker compose up -d
  

• Once the container is ready, web UI is available at

    http://<your-kanboard-server-ip>/4000
  

To stop the service

• use following command

    docker compose down
  

To Update

• Update using following command

    docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
  

• Prune the unused old images

    docker image prune