In this video I walk through setting up Plane, a self-hosted project management tool that (in my opinion) is a really solid alternative to Jira—especially if you’re in a homelab, just getting started with project management, or you’re trying to avoid paying the Atlassian tax. I show my usual homelab flow: create a DNS record, add the host to my Ansible inventory, and then let AWX run my workflow to provision a VM in Proxmox, patch it, and install Docker + Docker Compose. The goal is always the same: click a few buttons and let automation do the boring parts. Once the VM is up, I pull Plane’s install script, run the Community Edition setup, and hit a real-world snag: the installer expected newer Docker Compose flags that didn’t exist in my older Compose version. After updating Docker Compose (I bumped mine to a newer release), the images pull cleanly and the stack comes up. Then I update the .env values like NGINX_PORT (I use 8080 to avoid conflicts) and set the app URLs for HTTPS behind my reverse proxy. After that, we jump into the UI: creating the admin account (yes, it literally says “God mode”), setting up a workspace, and building a project with issues, cycles (sprints), views (Kanban board), pages (Confluence-style docs), and estimates (Fibonacci). If you want an enterprise-feeling tool without going pro right away, Plane is a fun one to self-host and actually use.