OpenProject

Description

Transform your project management with OpenProject, a vibrant and collaborative tool that brings clarity and energy to your planning, tracking, and team communication. Experience streamlined workflows and an innovative platform that propels your projects forward.

Overview

Designed for simplicity, this role automates everything needed to run OpenProject in a containerized environment. It configures essential services such as the application itself, a PostgreSQL database, reverse proxy, and optional LDAP integration for identity management.

Cosmos

The diagram places OpenProject in the Infinito.Nexus cosmos: the components it deploys (capabilities), the central services it consumes (dependencies), and its outward reach (federation and bridged external networks).

flowchart LR
    subgraph deps [Dependencies]
        dep_svc_bkp_volume_2_local["svc-bkp-volume-2-local 💻"]
        dep_svc_db_openldap["svc-db-openldap 🐳🐝"]
        dep_svc_db_postgres["svc-db-postgres 🐳🐝"]
        dep_svc_net_tor["svc-net-tor 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_dashboard["web-app-dashboard 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_keycloak["web-app-keycloak 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_matomo["web-app-matomo 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_prometheus["web-app-prometheus 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_seaweedfs["web-app-seaweedfs 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_app_stalwart["web-app-stalwart 🐳🐝"]
        dep_web_svc_css["web-svc-css 💻"]
        dep_web_svc_logout["web-svc-logout 🐳🐝"]
    end
    subgraph role [web-app-openproject 🐳🐝]
        svc_logout["logout"]
        svc_ldap["ldap"]
        svc_dashboard["dashboard"]
        svc_matomo["matomo"]
        svc_email["email"]
        svc_postgres["postgres"]
        svc_minio["minio ❌"]
        svc_seaweedfs["seaweedfs"]
        svc_web["web"]
        svc_seeder["seeder"]
        svc_cron["cron"]
        svc_worker["worker"]
        svc_proxy["proxy"]
        svc_cache["cache"]
        svc_sso["sso"]
        svc_css["css"]
        svc_prometheus["prometheus"]
        svc_tor["tor"]
        svc_openproject["openproject"]
        svc_container_backup["container_backup"]
    end
    subgraph dependents [Dependents]
        dpt_web_app_nextcloud["web-app-nextcloud 🐳🐝"]
    end
    dep_svc_bkp_volume_2_local -. "0..1" .-> svc_container_backup
    dep_svc_db_openldap -. "0..1" .-> svc_ldap
    dep_svc_db_postgres -. "0..1" .-> svc_postgres
    dep_svc_net_tor -. "0..1" .-> svc_tor
    dep_web_app_dashboard -. "0..1" .-> svc_dashboard
    dep_web_app_keycloak -. "0..1" .-> svc_sso
    dep_web_app_matomo -. "0..1" .-> svc_matomo
    dep_web_app_prometheus -. "0..1" .-> svc_prometheus
    dep_web_app_seaweedfs -. "0..1" .-> svc_seaweedfs
    dep_web_app_stalwart -. "0..1" .-> svc_email
    dep_web_svc_css -. "0..1" .-> svc_css
    dep_web_svc_logout -. "0..1" .-> svc_logout
    svc_logout -. "0..1" .-> dpt_web_app_nextcloud

Solid 1:1 edges are fixed relationships; dashed 0..1 edges are conditional (enabled only in matching deployments); red 0..0 edges are turned off in this role. Node markers show the role's deploy modes (💻 host, 🐳 compose, 🐝 swarm); ❌ marks a service that is explicitly turned off, and ⚙️ an Ansible role dependency declared in meta/main.yml.

Purpose

The purpose of this role is to reduce the complexity of setting up OpenProject with modern production-ready defaults. By combining Docker Compose and Ansible automation, it enables a hands-off setup for both small teams and larger internal infrastructures.

Features

Work Package Management: Create, assign, track, and prioritize tasks and issues with customizable workflows that keep your project organized and on schedule.
Gantt Charts & Timelines: Visualize project schedules and dependencies using intuitive Gantt charts and timeline views, enabling effective planning and resource allocation.
Agile Boards & Scrum/Kanban Integration: Manage agile projects using Scrum or Kanban boards, track progress through sprints, and maintain a clear overview of work in progress.
Time Tracking & Cost Management: Record time spent on tasks to monitor productivity and generate detailed cost reports to manage budgets effectively.
Collaboration & Document Management: Facilitate team collaboration with built-in discussion forums, document sharing, and version control, ensuring all project documentation remains up to date.
Robust Reporting & Dashboards: Gain insights through comprehensive reporting features and customizable dashboards that help monitor project performance and key metrics.
Custom Plugins & Extensibility: Extend functionality with a wide variety of plugins and integrations, or create your own to tailor OpenProject to your unique workflow.
Role-Based Access Control & Security: Manage user permissions precisely to ensure that sensitive information and critical functions remain secure.

Quick Setup

Development

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy OpenProject onto the local stack:

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=web-app-openproject full_cycle=false

Production

Run the published image to provision the inventory and deploy OpenProject to a managed server (the mounted volume persists the inventory):

APP=web-app-openproject
HOST=<your-server>
DOMAIN=<your-domain>
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"

docker run --rm -it \
  -v "$PWD/inventories:/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories" \
  -e APP="$APP" -e HOST="$HOST" -e DOMAIN="$DOMAIN" -e TLS_MODE="$TLS_MODE" -e SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY" \
  ghcr.io/infinito-nexus/core/debian bash -c '
    INVENTORY=/etc/infinito.nexus/inventories/production
    infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
      --inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
      --host "$HOST" \
      --include "$APP" \
      --vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}" &&
    infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
      --password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
      --diff -vv'

Developer Notes

To inspect and modify live settings inside the container, open a shell and use the Rails console for full LDAP and SMTP configuration.

Persona contract opt-outs

The administrator persona is not blocked: tasks/04_admin.yml seeds a native OpenProject account whose password is the Keycloak administrator secret, so the journey runs in every variant. The biber persona is blocked only in the sso: false variants — OpenProject is seeded with the administrator alone, and biber is auto-provisioned exclusively through the oauth2-proxy trusted-header bridge onto the LDAP auth source, which those variants remove. Both flags are declared explicitly in templates/playwright.env.j2.

Credits

Implemented by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).