Perimattic Managed Kanboard - Kanban Project Boards on AWS

This AMI runs Kanboard, a self-hosted project management tool built around kanban boards, on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: projects with columns and swimlanes, tasks with subtasks, comments, attachments, tags, due dates and time tracking, automatic actions, user roles and per-project permissions, and a JSON-RPC API for scripts and integrations. The container image is pinned to Kanboard 1.2.57 and baked into the AMI, so first start does not depend on a registry. Data is kept in an SQLite database on the instance.

What Perimattic adds

Administrator created for you: a fresh Kanboard install ships a built-in administrator login of admin with the password admin. That password does not exist here. During first-login setup a random 24-character password is generated on your server and the built-in account is replaced with your own administrator (user name, email and that password) before the site is published. Setup then checks that the new password works, that admin/admin and a wrong password are refused, both on the web login and on the API, and that anonymous requests to the pages and the API are refused. The application token that protects the API is created by Kanboard on first start and is unique to your server. Password reset by email is switched off because no mail server is configured, and the in-application plugin installer, which downloads and runs code from the internet, is switched off.

HTTPS: Apache is configured as a reverse proxy and a free Let's Encrypt certificate is requested for your domain with certbot. Kanboard listens only on the loopback interface, and the session cookie is marked secure. The tests sign in through Apache, create a project and a task through the API, read them back, and remove them.

Pinned and tested: the application version is fixed, not 'latest', so a rebuild never changes the server behind your back. Patched base: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS built through an automated EC2 Image Builder pipeline, with security updates applied at build time.

Limits you should know

Accounts are created by an administrator in the user settings; there is no self-service sign-up. No mail server is configured, so email notifications need an SMTP server that you set up. No plugin is installed; the plugin installer is off, so a plugin has to be copied into the plugins directory on the server by its owner. SQLite is suited to small and medium teams; very large installations should plan for a database server. In our tests the application used about 70 MB of memory.

Licence and attribution

Built on the open-source Kanboard (MIT licence), unmodified. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Kanboard project; Kanboard is a trademark of its owner.

Getting Started Launch the AMI and open ports 22, 80 and 443 in the security group SSH in and answer the setup prompts (domain and admin email) Open https://your-domain/  and sign in as admin with the password printed at the end of setup Create your first project and add users in the user settings

A domain name with an A record pointing at the instance is required, because the site is served over HTTPS.

This AMI is built and supported by Perimattic.

Book a free setup consultation at https://cal.com/gaurav-pareek-perimattic/marketplace-setup-consultations  or email us at aws-support@perimattic.com .

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