Tasks
A team board on your own instance
Deploy Focalboard with managed Postgres and a public HTTPS URL. Boards, cards, and comments stay here. You pay for compute — not per seat.
TemplatesFocalboard
What you get
A private Focalboard, packaged to ship
Boards and cards on your instance — Postgres, a data volume, and the public URL are wired at deploy.
Boards and cards
Track work on boards the team can open. Cards, comments, and attachments stay on this instance.
First account on the URL
Open the hostname and create the account. Invite the team from inside the app.
Public HTTPS URL
FOCALBOARD_SERVER_ROOT is your https://…stackblaze.app hostname so links in the app resolve.
Dedicated instance
Boards stay on this instance — not in a shared vendor account.
Files on a volume
Card attachments persist under the data directory. The database holds the boards.
Managed Postgres
Boards and users live in CloudNativePG. You do not add a database yourself.
See Focalboard in action
Deploy in seconds
One click. Postgres pre-wired.
Pick the Focalboard template. StackBlaze creates the app and Postgres, sets the server root, and gives you a hostname.
This stack
Web
Focalboard server
PostgreSQL
managed database · TCP:5432
- Stack
- Focalboard + PostgreSQL
- First login
- Create the first account on the public URL
- Address
- HTTPS hostname is already the server root
After you deploy
- 1
Open the public URL
The hostname is on the app page after deploy. That URL is already FOCALBOARD_SERVER_ROOT.
- 2
Create the first account
Register on that page. That user owns the instance until you invite others.
- 3
Make a board
Add a board and share it with the team. Attachments land on the data volume.
Running Focalboard on StackBlaze
How the instance is wired
Focalboard and Postgres ship together. The public hostname is the app. The server root is set to that URL at deploy.
Postgres holds the boards
Users, boards, and cards live in the attached database. Restart the app and the work is still there.
Attachments sit on disk
Files under /opt/focalboard/data persist on the volume. The database is not a file store.
The hostname is the server root
Links inside Focalboard use the public URL. Attach a custom domain from the dashboard when the team should open your domain.
Add CPU when the board gets busy
Raise RAM and CPU on the app from the dashboard. Postgres scales on its own.
Compare
Focalboard on StackBlaze vs a hosted board
| Feature | Focalboard on StackBlaze | Hosted board |
|---|---|---|
| Data location | Boards and cards live on your StackBlaze instance. | Work lives in vendor-operated infrastructure. |
| Install model | One-click template. First account on the public URL. | Create a vendor account and use their shared platform. |
| Workspace | Your boards, your domain, your team. | Limited to the host’s plan and guest rules. |
| Operations | You control updates, scale, backups, and the instance lifecycle. | The vendor operates the platform and the limits. |
| Billing | Compute, storage, and bandwidth. No per-seat fee. | Usually priced per seat or per plan. |
This template is Focalboard plus Postgres. The first account is created on the public URL.
FAQ
Common questions
Open the public URL and create an account. There is no pre-seeded password. That user can invite the rest of the team.
Ready to deploy Focalboard?
One click. Dependencies pre-wired. No infrastructure to manage.