Kanboard is an outstanding kanban level that you tin deploy to your information halfway successful nary time. Jack Wallen shows you how.
If you've work my instrumentality connected kanban boards, you mightiness beryllium astatine a spot wherever you're anxious to commencement making usage of this amazingly businesslike task absorption tool. If you privation to deploy a kanban solution to your information center, you person options ... tons of them. Some of those options are adjacent open-source. And that's what I privation to look astatine today, an open-source kanban solution that you tin deploy to your information halfway and person your teams utilizing successful nary time.
SEE: Feature comparison: Time tracking bundle and systems (TechRepublic Premium)
The solution successful question is Kanboard and it's a simple, stripped-down instrumentality that makes utilizing kanban boards incredibly simple. Kanboard includes the pursuing features:
- Drag and drop
- Simple and wide overview
- Progress limiter
- Search and filters
- Tasks, subtasks, and comments
- Automatic actions
- Multiple authentication backend support
If that sounds similar a kanban solution to acceptable your needs, let's proceed connected and get this installed.
What you'll request
I'll beryllium demonstrating the installation connected my server OS of choice, Ubuntu Server (version 21.04). So, you'll request a moving lawsuit of that and a idiosyncratic with sudo privileges. With that taken attraction of, let's get connected with the installation.
How to instal the dependencies
The archetypal happening we're going to bash is marque definite we person our LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack installed. Log into your Ubuntu Server lawsuit and instal the afloat stack with 1 command:
sudo apt-get instal lamp-server^ -yNext, we'll instal the indispensable PHP modules with:
sudo apt-get instal php-sqlite3 php-gd php-mbstring php-dom unzip -yStart and alteration Apache with:
sudo systemctl commencement apache2 sudo systemctl alteration apache2Download the Kanboard root with:
wget https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/archive/refs/tags/v1.2.20.zipMake definite to cheque the Kanboard download leafage to guarantee you're downloading the latest mentation of the software. If you bash find there's a newer mentation than 1.2.20, marque definite to edit the commands beneath to bespeak that release.
Unpack the record with:
unzip v1.2.20.zipMove and rename the recently created directory with:
sudo mv kanboard-1-2.20 /var/www/html/kanboardChange the ownership of the kanboard directory with:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/kanboardHow to entree Kanboard
Open a web browser and constituent it to http://SERVER/kanboard (where SERVER is the IP code of the hosting server). You volition beryllium presented with the login surface wherever you'll request to usage the credentials admin/admin. Once you've successfully authenticated, you'll beryllium presented with the main Kanboard window. The archetypal happening you should bash is alteration the admin password. For this, click the idiosyncratic drop-down successful the precocious close country and click My Profile. In the resulting model (Figure A), click Change password.
Figure A
At this point, you're acceptable to commencement adding users and boards. We'll revisit Kanboard successful aboriginal how-tos and larn however to get the astir retired of this useful kanban solution.
Subscribe to TechRepublic's How To Make Tech Work connected YouTube for each the latest tech proposal for concern pros from Jack Wallen.
Open Source Weekly Newsletter
You don't privation to miss our tips, tutorials, and commentary connected the Linux OS and unfastened root applications. Delivered Tuesdays
Sign up todayAlso see
- The champion browser for Linux, Windows and Mac isn't Google Chrome successful 2021 (TechRepublic)
- The champion chat bundle for Linux, macOS and Windows isn't Slack (TechRepublic)
- How to go a developer: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic)
- How-to usher for Linux administrators (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
- Linux 101: What tech pros request to know (TechRepublic Premium)
- Linux, Android, and much unfastened root tech coverage (TechRepublic connected Flipboard)