Creating a Taiga instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Taiga service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Taiga box and click the green View button.

You will see the Taiga information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Taiga application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, a keypair, and a security group for it. Regarding the security group, make sure it includes a rule allowing incoming TCP connections to port 9000.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Taiga Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Taiga dashboard

You have to know Taiga’s URL and the password automatically generated for the admin user. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the Taiga row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

In the superuser_password row, click the icon in the Action column. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the password displayed in the Output box to the clipboard. Then, paste that password into a new text editor window, but don’t save it in a new file. Instead, we recommend you create a new entry in your password manager of choice and move the password there. Close the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

In the superuser_username row, click the icon in the Action column. You will see that the user name in question is admin, so you might want to put that in the corresponding password manager entry.

Next, get a pop-up window revealing the particular Taiga deployment URL. Click the icon in the Action column of the taiga_url row, then click the blue Copy Output! button. Paste the URL into that password manager entry you just created.

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to the URL you just retrieved. The Taiga dashboard loads. Notice the Login link and click on it.

You are directed to the Taiga login page. Type in the user name (admin), paste the password from your password manager, and click on the LOGIN button below.

You now see the main Taiga page.

On a separate browser window or tab, navigate to the Taiga basics community page to learn how you can start using your new self-hosted project management service.