Bonjour, A discourse was setup as a multisite and runs six instances on six databases and six different domains. Every time a new instance is added, the container is rebuilt: ./launcher rebuild app It takes a few minutes and while it is happening all forums are down. It has worked fine for the …

If the database is created and migrated and the multisite.yml is updated in the container, you can just do a `sv restart unicorn’, but I don’t think there’s a way to do that easily. What I think you want is a two-container install so you can do the bootstrap while the old container containues to ru…

Yes. That’s what I mean by a two container install.

Adding an instance to multisite without rebuilding the container

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pilou September 6, 2021, 8:52am 3

Thanks for you answer !

Are you referencing to this ?

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Adding an instance to multisite without rebuilding the container

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