Taskwarrior Server (taskd) Docker

(c) 2015-2022 Óscar García Amor

Redistribution, modifications and pull requests are welcomed under the terms of MIT license.

Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line. It is flexible, fast, efficient, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way.

This docker packages taskd, Taskwarrior sync server, under Alpine Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution.

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Run

To run this container exposing taskd default port and making the data volume permanent in /srv/taskd, simply run.

docker run -d \
  --name=taskd \
  -p 53589:53589 \
  -v /srv/taskd:/var/taskd \
  connectical/taskd

This makes a set of self signed certificates and minimal configuration to run server.

Please note that the generated certificated will have their CN set to localhost. In order to modify the parameters used for the certificate generation:

• Delete everything in /pki/ except the generate scripts (generate*) and the vars file.
• Edit the vars file.
• Run docker exec -it <container-id> /var/taskd/pki/generate.

Manual setup

The run.sh script that launch taskd server always look for config file in data volume /var/taskd. If found it, simply run the server, but if config file is absent run.sh will build a new default config and its certificates.

If you make the data volume permanent you'll can access to its contents and make modifications that you need. The significant files are.

• config taskd config itself.
• log directory of log.
• org taskd data.
• pki directory that contains certs and certs generation helpers.

You can do any changes to this, but remember that if you delete config file, the run.sh script will rebuild everything.

Please refer to Taskwarrior Docs to know how do modifications, add users, etc.

Shell run

In some cases, you could need to run taskd command. You can run this docker in interactive mode, simply do.

docker run -ti --rm \
  -v /srv/taskd:/var/taskd \
  connectical/taskd /bin/sh

This mounts the permanent data volume /srv/taskd into taskd data directory and gives you a interactive shell to work.

Please note that the --rm modifier destroy the docker after shell exit.