Setup standalone WEKAN board

Wekan is integrated in sandstorm, but the future of sandstorm is a bit unsecure. Furthermore, E-Mail notifications seem not to work with Sandstorm.

Wekan could be put on the board.net domain.

Seems to be easiest with SNAP: https://github.com/wekan/wekan-snap/wiki/Install

snap settings: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Settings

snap install wekan
snap set wekan root-url='https://board.net/w' 
snap set wekan port='3001'
snap set core refresh.schedule=02:00-04:00
sudo snap set wekan mail-url='smtps://user:pass@mailserver.example.com:453'
sudo snap set wekan mail-from='Wekan Boards <support@example.com>'

We already have on heu2 an Apache reverse proxy from https://board.net/w to port 3001.

Authentication

LDAP works

Keycloak oAuth seems to work https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Keycloak#docker

probably some keycloak issues with first admin user: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+keycloak

Data

All projects are in Mongo, but where can we specify where to mount the MongoDB? This can be done in snap, if we run the MongoDB on an extra mount, see https://github.com/wekan/wekan-snap/issues/81#issuecomment-466941359

Backup

https://github.com/wekan/wekan-snap/wiki/Backup-and-restore#backup-script-for-mongodb-data-if-running-snap-mongodb-at-port-27019

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Docker build available as nightly snapshots only https://hub.docker.com/r/mquandalle/wekan/builds/?page=1

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heu2 is x64 with 2GB RAM only.

Wekan does run with 2 GB RAM, although more is of course better. Production systems usually have 4 GB or more.

helm chart available https://github.com/wekan/wekan/tree/master/helm/wekan

For the TRANSMAP project we would like to investigate if relations between cards could be visualized iN WEKAN. Ideally as self-organizing lines between two cards. For each user who adds the same relation the line gets thicker (or multiplied). One should be able to add a label to a line.

@lisa.kostrzewa maybe you could sketch a mockup. Then we could suggest that here https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/709

Entwurf liegt hier: https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/K6EeQCByLS5FcXq

Featurewunsch um Beziehungen zeichnen zu können eingekippt: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/3860

mentioned in issue #60

mentioned in issue #11

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Should we keep WEKAN with Sandstorm (as we have some active WEKAN users there) which was really not much effort for maintenance in the last years? Well, the latest version in Sandstorm is 6.15.0 2022-04-05, whereas there is now 7.55. So Sandstorm has not got any updates for two years, and other apps at Sandstorm are even much older. So we have to stick to our plan to shut down Sandstorm.

Should we keep Wekan for existing users? WEKAN is one of the most advanced kanban boards. Not clear if WEKAN supports HA deployments yet https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/5120#issuecomment-1712035864 - but there is a HELM chart.

wekan on k8s

Wekan HELM chart https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/wekan/wekan

helm repo add wekan https://wekan.github.io/charts
helm show values wekan/wekan
helm repo update
helm template wekan -n wekan-prod wekan/wekan > wekan.yaml

Looks good, even has autoscaler, so HA is possible.

• add overlays
• config ingress
• test deployment
• check OIDC SSO https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Keycloak#docker
• test notifications

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An alternative could be Planka https://github.com/plankanban/planka - but seems to have less features than Wekan.