Curious, does discourse use docker for each and every hosted customer? i.e. docker runs the discourse and the database etc? Or do you have a shared database server where each customer has their own database? If you run each customer using docker, what do you use to manage/orchestrate all of this?? If there is a blog post those goes into the details that would be very interesting to read.

The details vary a lot based on the hosting tier, but yes we do use docker everywhere. You might be interested in these topics which describe some of the techniques we lean on: Multisite configuration with Docker Migrate quickly to separate web and data containers

[image] Jay Pfaffman: traefik I was interested to know how you manage all these servers with docker. For example, when a new customer signs up, how do you spin off a new server etc. You need something to orchestrate all these servers running docker, and manage updates etc.

I have an ansible playbook that handles spinning up the stuff a new site needs (e.g., redis), updates the yml file (like if a plugin or setting is changed in my config file), bootstraps the image, launches the image, does post migrations after launch, and so on. https://dashboard.literatecomputing.com/ uses (most of) the same scripts to manage installations and upgrades on standard installs.

[image] Salman: docker runs the discourse and the database etc? Yes, almost all our hosting services are run in containers. [image] Salman: Or do you have a shared database server where each customer has their own database? With thousands of customers come thousands of databases :smile: [image] Salman: If you run each customer using docker, what do you use to manage/orchestrate all of this?? Now that you mention, it’s been a while since we blogged about our hosting tidbits on our blog. Nowadays we use a combination of Puppet and Nomad to do orchestration. [image] Salman: If there is a blog post those goes into the details that would be very interesting to read. We should follow up on this @stella :memo:

That would be great,thanks for the insights!

Does discourse hosting use docker for all customer instances?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 2, 2024, 2:17pm 3

I’ve done docker based installations with traefik, ecs, nginx-proxy, docker-compose, and haproxy (what cdck uses).

Usually it involves building an image with launcher.

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