Prehistoric Planning Poker

The coolest dinosaur themed planning poker application for agile refinement ceremonies.

Head to https://poker.developmentanddinosaurs.co.uk/ to see it in action, or you build it yourself instead!

Self Hosting

Prehistoric Planning Poker is simple to self-host. The entire application is distilled into a single executable jar file that can be run anywhere with a JVM.

Simply build the application from source using the included Gradle wrapper, and then run the resulting jar file. You could probably even put it in Docker or something neat like that! Oh, hey maybe I could provide a Docker image, that would be cool.

Build from source

./gradlew jar

Run jar

java -jar build/libs/planning-poker.jar

The application will spin up on ports 80 and 443 on localhost, so you'll be able to access the application after running the jar by navigating to https://localhost.

Hosting on AWS

You can also host the application on AWS mostly out of the box.

All infrastructure required is defined in the infra directory. Most resources are deployed using the CDK, though some are references to infrastructure created manually.

All infrastructure fits within AWS free-tier limits, so you can try it out for free. For 12 months anyway.

Hosting Elsewhere

You can host the application anywhere with a JVM, so shared hosting is probably out of the picture, but you should be able to find something suitable in Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, or a VPS.

There are no explicit instructions for this - but it will be very similar to self-hosting. Just on someone else's server. Cloud Computing™.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome but not expected. The ethos of this project is that contributions should be at least one of the following (in order of importance):

• Silly
• Fun
• Useful

All contributions should be written in Kotlin where possible - especially where doing something else would be smarter.