plane

Plane helps teams manage work items, plan cycles, split projects into modules, and organize knowledge in Pages. It includes shared filtered views and analytics, with options to use Plane Cloud or deploy on your own infrastructure.

Key features

• Work items with a rich text editor, file uploads, sub-properties, and related issue references.
• Cycles with burn-down charts for tracking progress.
• Modules for dividing complex projects into smaller parts.
• Custom filtered views that teams can save and share.
• Pages with rich text, images, hyperlinks, AI capabilities, and conversion of notes into work items.
• Real-time analytics for visualizing trends and identifying blockers.
• Workspaces with member invitations, roles, and permissions.
• Importers for migrating from Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and other tools.
• Self-hosting through Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

Why it helps in Pakistan

• Keep project tasks and supporting knowledge in one platform.
• Make larger projects easier to manage with modules and cycles.
• Reduce time spent finding relevant work through saved filtered views.
• Use progress charts and analytics to spot project blockers.
• Keep project data on your own infrastructure when self-hosting.

• 01

  A Lahore software house can track bugs and plan development cycles for client projects.

• 02

  A Karachi digital agency can divide client projects into modules and share filtered task views.

• 03

  An Islamabad startup can manage its product roadmap and turn planning notes into work items.

• 04

  A Pakistani business with internal data-storage requirements can host project information on its own servers.

Hardware

The Commercial Docker guide specifies 2 CPU cores, x64/AMD64 or AArch64/ARM64, and 4GB RAM; 8GB is recommended for production.The Community guide's AWS option requires at least a t3.medium or t3a.medium instance.For other Community installations and Kubernetes sizing: Check the official docs.

Operating system

Community Docker setup: Ubuntu, Linux AMI, or macOS with bash; Windows requires Git Bash.Commercial Docker setup: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Amazon Linux 2 or 2023, macOS, or Windows with WSL2.

Skills

Using a terminal and running shell scripts.Managing Docker and editing environment variables.For Kubernetes deployment: Check the official docs.

Accounts needed

A free Plane Cloud account is available for hosted use.An AWS account is needed if choosing the documented EC2 deployment option.For other self-hosted account requirements: Check the official docs.

Commands are copied from the project's README and official docs.

1. 1

   Prepare Docker for Community Edition

   Install and run Docker Desktop, or use the documented AWS EC2 option with at least a t3.medium/t3a.medium instance and install Docker using curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh -. Your user must have access to Docker services. Use a terminal, or Git Bash on Windows.
2. 2

   Create the deployment folder

   Run mkdir plane-selfhost, then cd plane-selfhost.
3. 3

   Download and launch the setup script

   Run curl -fsSL -o setup.sh https://github.com/makeplane/plane/releases/latest/download/setup.sh, then chmod +x setup.sh, then ./setup.sh.
4. 4

   Install Community Edition files

   Enter 1 to install. The script creates plane-app, or plane-app-preview for preview deployments, and downloads docker-compose.yaml and plane.env. Enter 8 to exit.
5. 5

   Configure ports and the access address

   Edit plane.env. Set LISTEN_HTTP_PORT and LISTEN_HTTPS_PORT to unused ports; their defaults are 80 and 443. Set WEB_URL and CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS to your intended domain or IP address with the appropriate port.
6. 6

   Start Plane

   Run ./setup.sh and enter 2. Wait for the images to download and services to start, then open your configured IP address or domain.

• GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

  The product documentation lists integrations with these development platforms; configuration details are not included in the supplied pages.

• Slack and Microsoft Teams

  Listed as supported integrations in the product documentation.

• Sentry

  Listed as a supported integration in the product documentation.

• SMTP, SendGrid, and AWS SES

  Self-hosted instances can configure email notifications, invitations, and alerts using SMTP, SendGrid, AWS SES, or their own mail server.

• PostgreSQL and Redis

  Self-hosted deployments can connect to managed database services.

• S3, MinIO, and GCS

  The self-hosting overview lists these external storage options.

• Google, GitHub, GitLab, and custom authentication providers

  The self-hosting overview lists authentication support, including SSO, OAuth, and LDAP configuration.

• GitHub
• Homepage
• Product documentation
• Self-hosting overview
• Docker Compose installation
• Kubernetes deployment
• Instance administration
• Plane Cloud
• Community forum