2container setup option

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@mbronstein

I only found it because I happened to read the discourse-setup script.

It is documented.

From: How to move from standalone container to separate web and data containers

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Added by @pfaffman 2019-12-11.

NOTE: If you want to create a 2 container site you can do this:

  ./discourse-setup 2container

It works just like normal except it’ll create separate data and web_only containers and generate a random password for the database. If you already have an app.yml you’ll need to rename it, or discourse-setup will just update it. You could then copy a backup into /var/discourse/shared/web_only/backups/default and restore that, which is a little easier than what’s described below.

@mbronstein

Is is intentional that this option has not been added to the install instructions? (If it is there but I missed it, I apologize)

I am reluctant to put it in the 30 minute install instructions, which is used by many people who can only barely understand those instructions and don’t read them carefully, because it requires that you have enough wherewithal to re-write the instructions every time you see ./launcher rebuild app to something like ./launcher rebuild web_only. “I did ‘./launcher rebuild app’ and I got an error! Help!”