thespad/planka

Planka is an elegant open source project tracking tool.

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures and simply pulling ghcr.io/thespad/planka:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture	Available	Tag
amd64	✅	latest
arm64	✅	latest

Application Setup

Web UI is accessible at http://SERVERIP:PORT. An external postgres database is required.

Default login is demo@demo.demo with a password of demo. Once you've created your own user account be sure to login to it and delete the demo account.

Migration from Official Image

Copy your user-avatars, project-background-images, and attachments folders to your new /config mount so that it looks like:

/config
├── attachments
├── project-background-images
└── user-avatars

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container.

docker-compose (recommended)

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

---
services:
  planka:
    image: ghcr.io/thespad/planka:latest
    container_name: planka
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com
      - TRUST_PROXY=0
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db/planka
      - SECRET_KEY=abc123
    volumes:
      - /path/to/planka/config:/config
    ports:
      - 1337:1337
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli

docker run -d \
  --name=planka \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -e BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com \
  -e TRUST_PROXY=0 \
  -e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db/planka \
  -e SECRET_KEY=abc123 \
  -p 1337:1337 \
  -v /path/to/planka/config:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/thespad/planka

Parameters

Container images are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Parameter	Function
-p 1337	Web UI.
-e PUID=1000	for UserID - see below for explanation.
-e PGID=1000	for GroupID - see below for explanation.
-e TZ=Europe/London	Specify a timezone to use e.g. Europe/London.
-e BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com	The URL you will use to access planka.
-e TRUST_PROXY=0	Set to 1 to trust upstream proxies if reverse proxying.
-e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db/planka	The URL to your postgres database.
-e SECRET_KEY=abc123	Set a random session key.
-v /config	Contains all relevant configuration files.

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__PASSWORD=/run/secrets/mysecretpassword

Will set the environment variable PASSWORD based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretpassword file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Support Info

• Shell access whilst the container is running: docker exec -it planka /bin/bash
• To monitor the logs of the container in realtime: docker logs -f planka

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. We do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

• Update all images: docker-compose pull
  • or update a single image: docker-compose pull planka
• Let compose update all containers as necessary: docker-compose up -d
  • or update a single container: docker-compose up -d planka
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Via Docker Run

• Update the image: docker pull ghcr.io/thespad/planka
• Stop the running container: docker stop planka
• Delete the container: docker rm planka
• Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)
• You can also remove the old dangling images: docker image prune

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

• We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/thespad/docker-planka.git
cd docker-planka
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t ghcr.io/thespad/planka:latest .

Versions

• 26.05.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.20.
• 17.03.24: - Rebase to Alpine 3.19.
• 04.09.23: - Initial Release.