Install Taiga.io Project Management Tool on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Welcome to our guide on how to install Taiga.io Project Management Tool on Ubuntu 18.04. Taiga.io is a Project management web application with scrum. It is built on top of Django and AngularJS. Taiga gives you an easy and efficient project collaboration, time tracking, bug tracking, Kanban board, wiki, reporting, backlogs e.t.c.

Update for Ubuntu 20.04: Install Taiga Project Management Platform on Ubuntu 20.04

Step 1: Setup all Pre-requisites / dependencies

Set your host system hostname and update the system

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname taiga.example.com
sudo apt update

Then install Taiga.io dependency packages by running the commands:

sudo apt -y install git pwgen automake wget curl gettext circus build-essential libgdbm-dev  binutils-doc autoconf flex gunicorn bison libjpeg-dev libzmq3-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libffi-dev python3 virtualenvwrapper python3-dev python3-pip python3-dev libssl-dev circus nginx

Confirm Python version installed, should be 3.6

$ python3 -V
Python 3.6.6

It is recommended to upgrade pip to the latest release

sudo pip3 install --upgrade setuptools pip

Another dependency Package is Node.js, install it with coffee-script Node package.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ make nodejs
sudo npm install -g gulp coffee-script

We also need to create a user account that will be used to run and manage Taiga.io services

sudo adduser taiga
sudo adduser taiga sudo

Step 2: Install and Configure PostgreSQL

Taiga.io requires  PostgreSQL database server. Install and configure it like below:

Import  the repository signing key:

wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Add PostgreSQL apt repository:

echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ bionic-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list

Update the package lists and install postgresql package

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install postgresql-10

The configuration file for PostgreSQL 10 is:

/etc/postgresql/10/main/postgresql.conf

Set PostgreSQL admin user’s password using:

$ sudo passwd postgres
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

Create a database and user for Taiga.io

$ sudo su - postgres
postgres@taiga:~$ createuser taiga 
postgres@taiga:~$ psql 
psql (10.5 (Ubuntu 10.5-2.pgdg18.04+1))
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# ALTER USER taiga WITH ENCRYPTED password 'StrongPassword';
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE taiga OWNER taiga;
postgres=# \q
postgres@taiga:~$ exit

Replace:

• taiga with your Database username for Taiga.io
• StrongPassword with strong database password for taiga user.

Step 3: Install Erlang and Configure RabbitMQ

Taiga message queue is processed by RabbitMQ but it is not installed by default on Ubuntu. In this section, you’ll install Erlang and RabbitMQ.

How to install Latest Erlang on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

How to install Latest RabbitMQ Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Once RabbitMQ server is installed, create a user and vhost for Taiga

sudo rabbitmqctl add_user taiga StrongPassword
sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost taiga
sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p taiga taiga ".*" ".*" ".*"

Step 4: Install and configure Taiga Backend

Switch to Taiga user account created in step 1 and create logs folder

su - taiga
mkdir -p ~/logs

Clone Taiga Backend Project from Github

git clone https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back.git
cd taiga-back
git checkout stable

Create Virtualenv

Then Create a Virtualenv for Taiga.io Backend and install required dependencies

mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 taiga_venv
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Populate the database with initial basic data

python3 manage.py migrate --noinput
python3 manage.py loaddata initial_user
python3 manage.py loaddata initial_project_templates
python3 manage.py compilemessages
python3 manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Data will be imported to your PostgreSQL database on running above commands. This also creates the administrator account whose login credentials are admin with a password 123123

If you need sample data, you can load it with python3 manage.py sample_data. This is for DEMO PURPOSES ONLY, it may be hard to clean up the data later.

Crete Config

Copy  the following config into ~/taiga-back/settings/local.py and update it with your own details:

from .common import *

MEDIA_URL = "http://taiga.example.com/media/"
STATIC_URL = "http://taga.example.com/static/"
SITES["front"]["scheme"] = "http"
SITES["front"]["domain"] = "taiga.example.com"

SECRET_KEY = "OQOEJNSJIQHDBQNSUQEJSNNANsqQPAASQLSMSOQND"

DEBUG = False
PUBLIC_REGISTER_ENABLED = True

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "[email protected]"
SERVER_EMAIL = DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

#CELERY_ENABLED = True

EVENTS_PUSH_BACKEND = "taiga.events.backends.rabbitmq.EventsPushBackend"
EVENTS_PUSH_BACKEND_OPTIONS = {"url": "amqp://taiga:StrongPassword@localhost:5672/taiga"}

# Uncomment and populate with proper connection parameters
# for enable email sending. EMAIL_HOST_USER should end by @domain.tld
#EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
#EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
#EMAIL_HOST = "localhost"
#EMAIL_HOST_USER = ""
#EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ""
#EMAIL_PORT = 25

# Uncomment and populate with proper connection parameters
# for enable github login/singin.
#GITHUB_API_CLIENT_ID = "yourgithubclientid"
#GITHUB_API_CLIENT_SECRET = "yourgithubclientsecret"

Change the settings to fit your environment, set RabbitMQ connection username and password, Taiga.io domain, secret key, and optional email settings.

Validation

To make sure that everything works, issue the following command to run the backend in development mode for a test:

workon taiga_venv
python manage.py runserver
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/

Sample successful output:

Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
October 24, 2018 - 22:21:54
Django version 1.11.2, using settings 'settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Disable your Virtualenv to begin Front end installation.

$ deactivate

Step 5: Install and configure Taiga Frontend

The taiga-front is written mostly in angularjs and CoffeeScript and depends on the backend. You need to have Taiga backend configured before doing these section configurations.

Switch to a taigauser account

su - taiga

Clone the Project source code from Github

git clone https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-front-dist.git
cd taiga-front-dist
git checkout stable

Copy the example config file:

cp ~/taiga-front-dist/dist/conf.example.json ~/taiga-front-dist/dist/conf.json

Edit the example configuration following the pattern below (replace with your own details):

$ cat ~/taiga-front-dist/dist/conf.json
{
    "api": "http://taiga.example.com/api/v1/",
    "eventsUrl": "ws://taiga.example.com/events",
    "eventsMaxMissedHeartbeats": 5,
    "eventsHeartbeatIntervalTime": 60000,
    "eventsReconnectTryInterval": 10000,
    "debug": true,
    "debugInfo": false,
    "defaultLanguage": "en",
    "themes": ["taiga"],
    "defaultTheme": "taiga",
    "publicRegisterEnabled": true,
    "feedbackEnabled": true,
    "supportUrl": "https://tree.taiga.io/support",
    "privacyPolicyUrl": null,
    "termsOfServiceUrl": null,
    "GDPRUrl": null,
    "maxUploadFileSize": null,
    "contribPlugins": [],
    "tribeHost": null,
    "importers": [],
    "gravatar": true,
    "rtlLanguages": ["fa"]
}

Replace taiga.example.com with your Taiga actual domain name. You can also change the other parameters to fit your use.

Step 6: Install Taiga Events

Taiga-events is the Taiga websocket server which allows taiga-front to show real-time changes in the backlog, taskboard, kanban, and issues listing. Taiga-events use rabbitmq as a  message broker.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-events.git taiga-events
cd taiga-events

Install the javascript dependencies needed

npm install
sudo npm install -g coffee-script

Create a configuration file for Taiga Events.

cp config.example.json config.json

Edit the fileconfig.json and update rabbitmq uri and the secret key.

$ cat ~/taiga-events/config.json
{
    "url": "amqp://taiga:StrongPassword@localhost:5672/taiga",
    "secret": "OQOEJNSJIQHDBQNSUQEJSNNANQPAASQLSMSOQND",
    "webSocketServer": {
        "port": 8888
    }
}

Replace StrongPassword with your RabbitMQ taiga user password and OQOEJNSJIQHDBQNSUQEJSNNANQPAASQLSMSOQND with your secret key generated and configured earlier.

Step 7: Configure Circus

Circus is a  Python Applications process manager used to run the Taiga backend and events.

sudo vim /etc/circus/conf.d/taiga-events.ini

[watcher:taiga-events]
working_dir = /home/taiga/taiga-events
cmd = /usr/bin/coffee
args = index.coffee
uid = taiga
numprocesses = 1
autostart = true
send_hup = true
stdout_stream.class = FileStream
stdout_stream.filename = /home/taiga/logs/taigaevents.stdout.log
stdout_stream.max_bytes = 10485760
stdout_stream.backup_count = 12
stderr_stream.class = FileStream
stderr_stream.filename = /home/taiga/logs/taigaevents.stderr.log
stderr_stream.max_bytes = 10485760
stderr_stream.backup_count = 12

Also create one for Taiga under /etc/circus/conf.d/taiga.ini

[watcher:taiga]
working_dir = /home/taiga/taiga-back
cmd = gunicorn
args = -w 3 -t 60 --pythonpath=. -b 127.0.0.1:8001 taiga.wsgi
uid = taiga
numprocesses = 1
autostart = true
send_hup = true
stdout_stream.class = FileStream
stdout_stream.filename = /home/taiga/logs/gunicorn.stdout.log
stdout_stream.max_bytes = 10485760
stdout_stream.backup_count = 4
stderr_stream.class = FileStream
stderr_stream.filename = /home/taiga/logs/gunicorn.stderr.log
stderr_stream.max_bytes = 10485760
stderr_stream.backup_count = 4

[env:taiga]
PATH = /home/taiga/.virtualenvs/taiga_venv/bin:$PATH
TERM=rxvt-256color
SHELL=/bin/bash
USER=taiga
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HOME=/home/taiga
PYTHONPATH=/home/taiga/.virtualenvs/taiga_venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Reload the circusd configurations:

sudo systemctl restart circusd 
sudo systemctl status circusd

To verify that the services are running, issue:

$ circusctl status
circusd-stats: active
plugin:flapping: active
taiga: active
taiga-events: active

Step 8: Configure Nginx

The last step is to create a new nginx virtualhost for Taiga.

sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/taiga.conf

Add the following data:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name taiga.example.com;

    large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;
    client_max_body_size 50M;
    charset utf-8;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/taiga.access.log;
    error_log /home/taiga/logs/taiga.error.log;

    # Frontend
    location / {
        root /home/taiga/taiga-front-dist/dist/;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    # Backend
    location /api {
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001/api;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

    # Django admin access (/admin/)
    location /admin {
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001$request_uri;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

    # Static files
    location /static {
        alias /home/taiga/taiga-back/static;
    }

    # Media files
    location /media {
        alias /home/taiga/taiga-back/media;
    }

	# Taiga-events
	location /events {
	proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888/events;
	proxy_http_version 1.1;
	proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
	proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
	proxy_connect_timeout 7d;
	proxy_send_timeout 7d;
	proxy_read_timeout 7d;
	}
}

Confirm configuration syntax:

$ sudo nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Now you can restart your nginx service

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx

Now you should have the service up and running on http://example.com/. Login with the username admin and password 123123.

Change Admin Password on Administrator > Change Password

Provide the old password and the new one then click Save. If you encounter any application related issues, view configured logs to help you quickly resolve them.