The installation guide is pretty clear that one of the downsides of using a Virtual Machine to host Discourse is the potential performance hit. Lots of ram and multiple drives are recommended to help alleviate this. I assume the upsides are mostly that you can build/install a known environment, and …

The advantage of using the Docker install is basically that the environment is guaranteed to be correct. This greatly simplifies the support tasks. Here’s an entry on the Gentoo wiki explaining the basics of the container system: LXC - Gentoo wiki

Keep in mind that Docker is not virtualization (although it can be used in combination with it), it’s containerization. Its benefit is that all of the requirements for Discourse are packaged up in an easily consumable fashion, making it easier to deploy, support and upgrade. It does not reduce perfo…

Ah. “Docker?” I said to myself. “What’s that got to do with anything?” Bear with me here, I’m a part-time programmer. (More accurately, I’m a one-man band; I manufacture and sell small objects made from atoms with no moving parts. The servers I run and the software I write mostly go to support my bu…

So what you’re saying is that some of the benefits of virtualization (in particular, some of the isolation benefits) can be had through the Docker containerization system without paying most of the VM performance penalties?

[صورة] snarke: Still, wouldn’t I make my life simpler by just using the Docker containerized install twice, once for the dev install and once for the production install? In what sense do you mean dev install? For actual development on Discourse, prefer Vagrant installed on your local machine…

In the sense of having two independent instances of Discourse running? Although, as I think about it, I’m not sure why I’d do that. It’s not like I intend to do any development work on Discourse itself. Never mind, I retract the question. {slightly sheepish grin} Sam’s blog says to use Ubuntu 12.0…

Pros and cons of installing Discourse on a NON-virtual machine?

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riking (Kane York) 12 مارس 2014، 10:36م 8

They’re both perfectly fine. Just skip the step in the installation of Docker where you install the 3.8 kernel, because that’s the first one with LXC.

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