How to Install Focalboard on OpenSUSE Latest

Focalboard is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Trello. It helps individuals and teams manage tasks, projects and notes in a visually appealing interface. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Focalboard on OpenSUSE Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Focalboard on OpenSUSE Latest, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• OpenSUSE Latest installed and accessible with administrative privileges.
• Docker installed and running.

Step 1: Download Focalboard package

First, we need to download the Focalboard package from the official website. Open a terminal and run the command below to download the package to your home directory.

$ wget https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/releases/download/v0.9.11/focalboard-docker-v0.9.11-linux-amd64.tar.gz -P ~/

Step 2: Extract Focalboard package

Once you have downloaded the package, extract it to the /opt/ directory by running the following command:

$ sudo tar -C /opt/ -xvzf ~/focalboard-docker-v0.9.11-linux-amd64.tar.gz

After the package extraction process is complete, you should see a focalboard/ directory inside the /opt/ directory.

Step 3: Configure Focalboard

Focalboard uses a configuration file to run. Let's create a configuration file; this file will be used to connect Focalboard to the PostgreSQL database.

$ sudo mkdir /opt/focalboard/config/
$ sudo nano /opt/focalboard/config/config.json

Paste the following configuration into the file:

{
  "appsettings": {
    "siteurl": "http://localhost:8000",
    "databasetype": "postgres",
    "postgressettings": {
      "User": "focalboard",
      "Password": "mypassword",
      "Host": "postgres",
      "Port": 5432,
      "DatabaseName": "focalboard",
      "SSLMode": "require"
    }
  }
}

• User - Set your database username
• Password - Set your database password
• Host - Set your database host name
• Port - Set your database host port
• DatabaseName - Set the name of the focalboard database

Step 4: Run Focalboard as a container

In this step, we will start Focalboard as a Docker container. Open a terminal and run the following command to start the Focalboard container:

$ sudo docker run -d --name fb -p 8000:8000 --network=host -v /opt/focalboard/config:/config mattermost/focalboard:0.9.11

• -d - run the container in detached mode
• --name fb - give a name to the container
• -p 8000:8000 - expose the container on port 8000
• --network=host - use the host network mode
• -v /opt/focalboard/config:/config - mount the configuration directory from the host to the container
• mattermost/focalboard:0.9.11 - the name of the image to start the container from

Step 5: Access Focalboard

If everything is working correctly, we can now access Focalboard web interface by visiting http://localhost:8000 on your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and run Focalboard on OpenSUSE Latest. Now you can start using Focalboard to manage your tasks, projects and notes in a self-hosted environment.

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