Installation of Kanboard Kanban tool in OpenShift
cloud service
This document describes the actions required to install free and open source simple visual task
board, Kanboard, in the open hybrid cloud application platform OpenShift. The only requirements
for the installation are a connection to the internet, a web browser and a valid email address to be
used as username for the OpenShift service. The whole process takes 5 – 10 minutes.
1 Create an account in OpenShift platform
OpenShift is an open hybrid cloud application platform offered by RedHat. The platform offers a
free sign up limited to three simultaneous applications and limited resources of computing and
bandwidth. The installed applications are also given a domain name by the service such that any
applications are ready to be used remotely immediately after the installation has been finished.
OpenShift cloud platform supports many popular web application technologies such as Java, PHP
or MySQL. As the Kanboard has been implemented with PHP and it applies a simple database
technology SQLite the OpenShift platform suits fine for it.
1.1 OpenShift Sign Up
Browse to the OpenShift website at https://www.openshift.com/.
Figure 1 Index page of the Open Shift service
To sign up for the free online platform select the appropriate service (Online public PaaS) and click
the button icon “SIGN UP FOR FREE” (Figure 1).
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Figure 2 Registration sheet of OpenShift free PaaS service
On the opening page (Figure 2) just fill in a valid email address to be used as a username of your
account and a password. You are also asked to write a set of text or numbers shown in the image to
filter out spam bots from registering in the service.
Once the fields have been filled with data just press the button Sign Up. A succesful registration is
notified by announcement as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 Registration has been approved
Now, browse to your email, find the message sent by OpenShift and verify the registration by
clicking the verification link.
Figure 4 Verify the registration by clicking the email link
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Figure 5 Accept the terms of use
After confirming the registration from email link you are forwarded back to OpenShift web page
(Figure 5) to finish the registration process. To do this it is required that you accept the service
agreement and terms of use of the OpenShift. The user may also here sign up to receive newsletters
to the email, if wished. After reading through the agreement and terms of use, press the button “I
Accept”.
1.2 Set up the OpenShift account
Accepting the terms should redirect the user to the account welcome page (Figure 6). If necessary,
login to the service through link LOG IN on the index page of the service (Figure 1).
Figure 6 Applications view of the OpenShift service
Looking at the page there are three different views for the user. The Applications view (Figure 6)
offers the user the list of installed applications, which initially of course is empty. Instead of
applictions the view offers first a command link to create the first application.
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Figure 7 Settings view, setup the namespace
The second view is the Settings (Figure 7). Before any applications can be added on the service
you need to set up the namespace for the applications on this platform account. This namespace
separates the domain name (URL) of the applications on this account from all the other accounts
made by other people on this same service and it must be unique. Namespace name is attached to all
applications installed on this platform, each application will be identified by the part
“applicationname” of the domain name. Domain name may consist of letters and numbers.
No other settings need to be set up to install the Kanboard application.
1.3 Install Kanboard
An installable copy of a recent published static version of Kanboard can be found in Github service
at https://github.com/salopant/Kanboard. Kanboard can also installed by following the instructions
in the Kanboard project site http://kanboard.net/documentation/installation but it is a bit more
complex operation than applying this copy.
To start the installation process, click on the link Create your first application now on the
Application view (Figure 6) of the OpenShift service account. This click opens a selection list of
the application type. From the list, search for the category PHP, pick up the type PHP 5.4 and
click it.
Figure 8 Select application type PHP 5.4 from the list
Selection of the application type is followed by the set up of the application parameters (Figure 9).
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Figure 9 Set up of the application parameters
First write the domain name for the application in the field Public URL. This name must be unique
for each application installed in this same account (namespace). To copy the source code from the
Github, copy and paste the URL from the Github view.
To do this, write the URL https://github.com/salopant/Kanboard in the field Source
Code: Optional URL to a Git repository (Figure 10).
Figure 10 Insert the URL to source code Github resource
Now, press the button Create Application on the bottom of this page. The setup process takes
some time to finish (Figure 11).
Figure 11 Wait until the setup is finished
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Setup process is finished with a view shown in Figure 12. On this view just select Not now,
continue.
Figure 12 Finish the setup
Now the application should be up and running. The Application view of the OpenShift service
shows now a link to the application. Click the link and you’ll get to the Kanboard login page.
Figure 13 Applcation view after succesful installation of Kanboard
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