openDesk is a Kubernetes based, open-source and cloud-native digital workplace suite provided by the Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität der Öffentlichen Verwaltung (ZenDiS) GmbH.

openDesk currently features the following functional main components:

Function	Functional Component	Component Version	Upstream Documentation
Chat & collaboration	Element ft. Nordeck widgets	1.11.67	For the most recent release
Diagram editor	CryptPad ft. diagrams.net	5.6.0	For the most recent release
File management	Nextcloud	28.0.5	Nextcloud 28
Groupware	OX App Suite	8.23	Online documentation available from within the installed application; Additional resources
Knowledge management	XWiki	16.4.1	For the most recent release
Portal & IAM	Nubus	Product Preview¹	Univention's documentation website
Project management	OpenProject	14.2.0	For the most recent release
Videoconferencing	Jitsi	2.0.9457	For the most recent release
Weboffice	Collabora	24.04.5.2.1	Online documentation available from within the installed application; Additional resources

While not all components are perfectly shaped for the execution inside containers, one of the project's objectives is to align the applications with best practices regarding container design and operations.

This documentation aims to give you all that is needed to set up your own instance of the openDesk.

Basic knowledge of Kubernetes and DevOps processes is required though.

Disclaimer

openDesk will face breaking changes in the near future without upgrade paths before technical release v1.0.0 is reached.

While most components support upgrades, major configuration or component changes may occur, therefore we recommend from scratch installations for now.

In the next months, we not only expect to integrate upstream updates of the functional components to include their most recent feature and security sets, but also to address operational topics like scalability for the openDesk platform.

Of course, further development also includes enhancing the documentation itself.

Requirements

⟶ Visit our detailed Requirements overview.

Getting started

⟶ Visit our detailed Getting started guide.

Advanced customization

Development

⟶ To understand the repository contents from a developer perspective please read the Development guide.

Releases

All technical releases are created using Semantic Versioning.

Gitlab provides an overview on the releases of this project.

Please find a list of the artifacts related to the release either in the source code archive attached to the release or in the files from the release's git-tag:

./helmfile/environments/default/images.yaml
./helmfile/environments/default/charts.yaml

⟶ Visit our detailed Workflow docs.

Components

⟶ Visit our detailed Component docs.

Feedback

We love to get feedback from you!

Related to the deployment / contents of this repository, please use the issues within this project.

If you want to address other topics, please check the section "Rückmeldungen und Beteiligung" in the OVERVIEW.md of the openDesk Info Repository.

License

This project uses the following license: Apache-2.0

Copyright

Footnotes

Nubus is the Cloud Portal and IAM from Univention. It is currently integrated as a product preview within openDesk therefore, not all resources like documentation and structured release notes are available, while the source code can already be found on Open CoDE. Please find updates regarding the Nubus at https://nubus.io. ↩︎