Kanboard

Project management app that organizes tasks as cards on kanban boards.

Replaces

Paid kanban board services, such as Trello.

All open-source alternatives to Trello

Difficulty

Difficulty: Easy

1 service, 3 volume mounts, no env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 1 of 11: easy.

Stack

PHP (language)

Deployment

docker_compose

Requirements

Not stated.

License

MIT (OSI-approved open source)

Read from github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/LICENSE

Business model

Unknown

The README at the pinned commit does not state a business model, so it stays unknown.

Source: github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/README.md, read on 2026-10-22.

Repository

kanboard/kanboard

GitHub stats

Stars: 9,921
Forks: 2,006
Open issues and pull requests: 156
Last push: 2026-10-21
Latest release: v1.2.56
Released: 2026-10-21

From the GitHub API on 2026-10-22. These numbers are a snapshot, not live. GitHub detected the license as MIT.

Compose file

Config check passed docker compose config exited 0 on this exact file on 2026-10-22.

docker-compose.sqlite.yml Version 1

# Sample docker-compose file to run Kanboard with Sqlite
# More information at https://docs.kanboard.org/v1/admin/docker/
name: kanboard
services:
  app:
    image: ${KANBOARD_IMAGE:-kanboard/kanboard:latest}
    container_name: kanboard
    restart: always
    ports:
     - "80:80"
     - "443:443"
    volumes:
     - data:/var/www/app/data
     - plugins:/var/www/app/plugins
     - certs:/etc/nginx/ssl
volumes:
  data:
    driver: local
  plugins:
    driver: local
  certs:
    driver: local

From the app's own repository: github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml.

Compose file from the app repository.

Install

Docker with the Compose plugin (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml)
A host with Docker and the Docker Compose plugin. This entry runs from a compose file.
Save the compose file as compose.yaml (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml)
Use the compose file shown above.
Start it (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml)
```
docker compose up -d
```
Open the app (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml)
Open http://localhost:80. The compose file publishes host port 80 for the app service.

Compose file check: config_ok on 2026-10-22.

Gotchas and maintenance

Gotchas

Some images use the latest tag or no tag. Images without a pinned version: app: ${KANBOARD_IMAGE:-kanboard/kanboard:latest}. A later pull can get a different version. (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml, checked 2026-10-22)
The compose file publishes host ports. Host ports: 80 (app), 443 (app). A port without a host address listens on all host network interfaces. (github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/e197e71/docker-compose.sqlite.yml, checked 2026-10-22)

Signals

Open issues and pull requests: 156
Last push: 2026-10-21 (0 days before this page was built)
Latest release: v1.2.56 on 2026-10-21 (0 days before this page was built)