planka

planka

Docker app from linuxserver's Repository

Overview

Planka(https://github.com/plankanban/planka/) is an elegant open source project tracking tool.

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The LinuxServer.io team brings you another container release featuring:

  • regular and timely application updates
  • easy user mappings (PGID, PUID)
  • custom base image with s6 overlay
  • weekly base OS updates with common layers across the entire LinuxServer.io ecosystem to minimise space usage, down time and bandwidth
  • regular security updates

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Planka is an elegant open source project tracking tool.

planka

Supported Architectures

We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture Available Tag
x86-64 amd64-<version tag>
arm64 arm64v8-<version tag>

Application Setup

Web UI is accessible at http://SERVERIP:PORT. An external postgres database is required.

Once you've run your first time setup you can safely remove the DEFAULT_ environment variables. They will overwrite any changes made to the default user in the web UI (passwords, display names, etc.) on startup if left in place.

Migration from Official Image

Copy your user-avatars, background-images, and attachments folders to your new /config mount so that it looks like:

/config
├── attachments
└── images
    ├── background-images
    └── user-avatars

Read-Only Operation

This image can be run with a read-only container filesystem. For details please read the docs.

Non-Root Operation

This image can be run with a non-root user. For details please read the docs.

Usage

To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.

[!NOTE] Unless a parameter is flagged as 'optional', it is mandatory and a value must be provided.

docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)

---
services:
  planka:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest
    container_name: planka
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db:5432/planka
      - DEFAULT_ADMIN_EMAIL=demo@demo.demo
      - DEFAULT_ADMIN_USERNAME=demo
      - DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=demo
      - "DEFAULT_ADMIN_NAME=Demo User"
      - SECRET_KEY=notasecretkey
      - TRUST_PROXY=false
      - DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=en-US #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/planka/data:/config
    ports:
      - 1337:1337
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli (click here for more info)

docker run -d \
  --name=planka \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Etc/UTC \
  -e BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com \
  -e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db:5432/planka \
  -e DEFAULT_ADMIN_EMAIL=demo@demo.demo \
  -e DEFAULT_ADMIN_USERNAME=demo \
  -e DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=demo \
  -e DEFAULT_ADMIN_NAME="Demo User" \
  -e SECRET_KEY=notasecretkey \
  -e TRUST_PROXY=false \
  -e DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=en-US `#optional` \
  -p 1337:1337 \
  -v /path/to/planka/data:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest

Parameters

Containers are configured using parameters passed at runtime (such as those above). These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Parameter Function
-p 1337:1337 Planka web UI.
-e PUID=1000 for UserID - see below for explanation
-e PGID=1000 for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e TZ=Etc/UTC specify a timezone to use, see this list.
-e BASE_URL=https://planka.example.com The URL you will use to access planka including protocol, and port if not 80/443.
-e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@planka-db:5432/planka Postgres database URL. Special characters must be url encoded.
-e DEFAULT_ADMIN_EMAIL=demo@demo.demo Email address for default user.
-e DEFAULT_ADMIN_USERNAME=demo Username for default user.
-e DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=demo Password for default user.
-e DEFAULT_ADMIN_NAME=Demo User Display name for default user.
-e SECRET_KEY=notasecretkey Session encryption key, recommended 32-64 character alphanumeric.
-e TRUST_PROXY=false Set to true to trust upstream proxies if reverse proxying.
-e DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=en-US This sets the default language for sending notifications per user (if a user hasn't selected a language) and per board.
-v /config Local path for planka config files.
--read-only=true Run container with a read-only filesystem. Please read the docs.
--user=1000:1000 Run container with a non-root user. Please read the docs.

Environment variables from files (Docker secrets)

You can set any environment variable from a file by using a special prepend FILE__.

As an example:

-e FILE__MYVAR=/run/secrets/mysecretvariable

Will set the environment variable MYVAR based on the contents of the /run/secrets/mysecretvariable file.

Umask for running applications

For all of our images we provide the ability to override the default umask settings for services started within the containers using the optional -e UMASK=022 setting. Keep in mind umask is not chmod it subtracts from permissions based on it's value it does not add. Please read up here before asking for support.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id your_user as below:

id your_user

Example output:

uid=1000(your_user) gid=1000(your_user) groups=1000(your_user)

Docker Mods

Docker Mods Docker Universal Mods

We publish various Docker Mods to enable additional functionality within the containers. The list of Mods available for this image (if any) as well as universal mods that can be applied to any one of our images can be accessed via the dynamic badges above.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running:

    docker exec -it planka /bin/bash
    
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:

    docker logs -f planka
    
  • Container version number:

    docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' planka
    
  • Image version number:

    docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest
    

Updating Info

Most of our images are static, versioned, and require an image update and container recreation to update the app inside. With some exceptions (noted in the relevant readme.md), we do not recommend or support updating apps inside the container. Please consult the Application Setup section above to see if it is recommended for the image.

Below are the instructions for updating containers:

Via Docker Compose

  • Update images:

    • All images:

      docker-compose pull
      
    • Single image:

      docker-compose pull planka
      
  • Update containers:

    • All containers:

      docker-compose up -d
      
    • Single container:

      docker-compose up -d planka
      
  • You can also remove the old dangling images:

    docker image prune
    

Via Docker Run

  • Update the image:

    docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest
    
  • Stop the running container:

    docker stop planka
    
  • Delete the container:

    docker rm planka
    
  • Recreate a new container with the same docker run parameters as instructed above (if mapped correctly to a host folder, your /config folder and settings will be preserved)

  • You can also remove the old dangling images:

    docker image prune
    

Image Update Notifications - Diun (Docker Image Update Notifier)

[!TIP] We recommend Diun for update notifications. Other tools that automatically update containers unattended are not recommended or supported.

Building locally

If you want to make local modifications to these images for development purposes or just to customize the logic:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-planka.git
cd docker-planka
docker build \
  --no-cache \
  --pull \
  -t lscr.io/linuxserver/planka:latest .

The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware and vice versa using lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static

docker run --rm --privileged lscr.io/linuxserver/qemu-static --reset

Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.

Versions

  • 05.07.26: - Rebase to Alpine 3.24.
  • 13.02.26: - Rebase to Alpine 3.23. Updates for v2. Users should update TRUST_PROXY to use true/false instead of 1/0.
  • 12.01.25: - Rebase to Alpine 3.21.
  • 18.09.24: - Update default user docs.
  • 12.09.24: - Initial Release.

Install Planka on Unraid in a few clicks.

Find Planka in Community Apps on your Unraid server, review the template, and click Install. Unraid handles the Docker app or plugin setup from the published template.

Open the Apps tab on your Unraid server Search Community Apps for Planka Review the template variables and paths Click Install

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Details

Repository
lscr.io/linuxserver/planka
Last Updated2026-06-25
First Seen2024-09-12

Runtime arguments

Network
bridge
Shell
bash
Privileged
false

Template configuration

WebUIPorttcp

Planka web UI.

Target
1337
Default
1337
AppdataPathrw

Local path for planka config files.

Target
/config
BASE_URLVariable

The URL you will use to access planka including protocol, and port if not 80/443.

Default
https://planka.example.com
DATABASE_URLVariable

Postgres database URL. Special characters must be url encoded(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding).

Default
postgresql://user:password@planka-db:5432/planka
DEFAULT_ADMIN_EMAILVariable

Email address for default user.

Default
demo@demo.demo
DEFAULT_ADMIN_USERNAMEVariable

Username for default user.

Default
demo
DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORDVariable

Password for default user.

Default
demo
DEFAULT_ADMIN_NAMEVariable

Display name for default user.

Default
Demo User
SECRET_KEYVariable

Session encryption key, recommended 32-64 character alphanumeric.

Default
notasecretkey
TRUST_PROXYVariable

Set to `true` to trust upstream proxies if reverse proxying.

Default
false
DEFAULT_LANGUAGEVariable

This sets the default language for sending notifications per user (if a user hasn't selected a language) and per board.

Default
en-US
PUIDVariable

Container Variable: PUID

Default
99
PGIDVariable

Container Variable: PGID

Default
100
UMASKVariable

Container Variable: UMASK

Default
022