# Deploy Focalboard with Easypanel

URL: /templates/focalboard

Mattermost Boards is an open-source project management tool designed for technical teams. It centralizes, plans, and tracks all your work in one place, helping your organization maintain a single source of truth. This ensures your teams stay aligned to complete tasks, reach milestones, and achieve their goals. The app allows you to manage all your tasks on a Kanban, table, gallery, and calendar view, focusing on the highest priority items with board filters. It also offers real-time collaboration features, including card comments, @mention teammates, and board permissions to share your board with the entire team or specific individuals. Mattermost Boards comes with pre-built templates for quick setup or the option to create a fully custom board from scratch. It also includes features like unlimited boards, file sharing, customizable templates, project cards & tasks, archiving & back-up snapshots, and more. Mattermost Boards is an open-source alternative to tools like Asana, Trello, and Notion.

## Benefits

### Accelerate Productivity

Mattermost Boards centralizes, plans, and tracks all your work in one place. It helps your organization maintain a single source of truth, so your teams stay aligned to complete tasks, reach milestones, and achieve their goals.

### Organize and Visualize Work Your Way

Mattermost Boards allows you to work in the way that suits you best. You can manage all your tasks on a Kanban, table, gallery, and calendar view. It also allows you to focus on the highest priority items with board filters, and save an unlimited number of filtered views for quick access later.

### Real-Time Collaboration

Mattermost Boards keeps everyone in sync with card comments, @mention teammates to get their attention, and set board permissions to share your board with the entire team or specific individuals.

### Customizable Templates

Mattermost Boards provides tons of templates to get you started fast. You can also create a fully custom board from scratch.

## Features

### Unlimited Boards

Mattermost Boards allows you to create and manage unlimited boards to keep track of all your projects and tasks.

### Task Management

With Mattermost Boards, you can group, filter, and sort tasks to manage your work effectively. It also supports file sharing and unlimited custom attributes.

### Customizable Templates

Mattermost Boards comes with pre-built templates for project tasks, content calendar, company goals & OKRs, roadmap, meeting agenda, and more. You can also create a fully custom board from scratch.

### Real-Time Collaboration

Mattermost Boards supports real-time collaboration with features like card comments, @mention teammates, and board permissions to share your board with the entire team or specific individuals.

### Archiving & Back-Up Snapshots

Mattermost Boards allows you to archive and back-up snapshots of your boards for future reference.

### User Permissions

With Mattermost Boards, you can set user permissions to control who can view and edit your boards.

### Multi-Team Views

Mattermost Boards supports multi-team views, allowing you to collaborate with multiple teams on the same board.

## Configuration

- `appServiceName` (App Service Name, required): focalboard

- `appServiceImage` (App Service Image, required): mattermost/focalboard:7.11.4

- `databaseType` (Database Type, required): SQLite / PostgreSQL / MariaDB / MySQL

- `databaseServiceName` (Database Service Name, required): focalboard-db

- `enablePublicSharedBoards` (Enable Public Shared Boards): false

- `telemetry` (Telemetry): false

## Services

- focalboard-db: sqlite3, optional

- focalboard: app (mattermost/focalboard:7.11.4)

## Resources

- [Website](https://focalboard.com)

- [Documentation](https://docs.mattermost.com/guides/boards.html)

- [Github](https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard)

- [Docker](https://hub.docker.com/r/mattermost/focalboard)

- [Template source](https://github.com/easypanel-io/templates/tree/main/templates/focalboard)