Hi everyone, I’m here again to ask for a strange thing :sparkles: I am still investigating how to install Discourse for my Internal Community. In the past, I asked about How to install Discourse with an external Redis and an external Postgres and To manage everything in A Kubernetes cluster. You c…

To give more context and more details: I used the launcher script with the command bootstrap to create my own image with my configurations. Then the documentation says you need to run the launcher with the command run to create the container from the image. Inspecting the code of the script I fou…

Thanks this was very helpful :sparkling_heart: Did this command was on the documentation? If so, sorry about asking, I did not saw it. Thanks a lot for always helping me :sparkles:

[image] ann_eav: I tried to build my own image using the bootstrap command but I can’t launch the docker image by myself because it looks for the ruby templates and returns an error. Discourse depends on PostgreSQL running in a shared volume; and a lot of other important files are in that sha…

Thanks for the reply, this is very helpful :slight_smile: I was yesterday reading about why the scripts are needed in this topic and other few. Thanks again for your deeper explanation, all of this information helps me to understand how to create my own workflow to work with the standards needed …

[image] ann_eav: Thanks again for your deeper explanation, all of this information helps me to understand how to create my own workflow to work with the standards needed You are most welcome. It can be very confusing for anyone who is (1) not a Ruby on Rails developer and (2) not an EmberJS …

[image] neounix: Discourse depends on PostgreSQL running in a shared volume; and a lot of other important files are in that shared volume (images, uploaded files, backups, logs, and more). Just stumbled upon this. Are you saying I can not run the app and the database on physcially different h…

[image] serverhorror: Are you saying I can not run the app and the database on physcially different hosts sharing absolutely nothing? No, that is not the case. Running Discourse with a dedicated external database is a supported and documented use case.

Is there a way to install Discourse without the provided scripts?

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Falco (Falco) February 8, 2021, 1:21pm 3

Try running ./launcher start-cmd app

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Is there a way to install Discourse without the provided scripts?

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