In this tutorial, we will be installing Wekan and Snap on a CentOS 7 VPS.
Wekan is a web-based kanban board application that provides task distribution using intuitive graphics for better and modern team collaboration. Wekan makes use of what they call ‘Board’ from which you can add your team members. Added members can be assigned on a ‘Card’ which is simply a card-like interface that contains the details about a task.
This basic concept of ‘Board’ and ‘Cards’ make the arrangement of tasks effortless to perform since team members can see what the overall progress of the team is with regards of work to be done, work that’s currently being done, and any work that’s already done which in return increases the productivity of the team.
Wekan almost provides the same features of Trello, with some advantages:
- Source code is fully open-source
- Source code is reviewed by security researchers
- Powered by mainstream web technologies e.g. Nginx, Node JS, and MongoDB
- No monthly subscription payment fees
- Can be hosted on your own server
- Can be used in a private or local network
- Continues releases and bug fixes from maintainers
For installation, Wekan uses Snap, which is simply a packaging software for cross-platform and dependency-free installation.
Wekan is administered under the MIT License and is currently supported by Wekan Team under its maintainer under the name of ‘xet7’.
In this blog post we will show you how to install Wekan on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with the latest version of Nginx as a reverse proxy. Wekan is an open-source Trello-like kanban board application which runs on Node.js and MongoDB. This guide should work on other