# Ansible Playbook to install Docker, Discourse and Postfix **URL:** \ **Category:** Sysadmins\ **Tags:** docker, reference\ **Created:** [May 11, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ansible-playbook-to-install-docker-discourse-and-postfix/62496 "2017-05-11T09:47:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![chrisc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisc/32/119982_2.png) [@chrisc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisc)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ansible-playbook-to-install-docker-discourse-and-postfix/62496/1 "2017-05-11T09:47:48Z")
Though I’d post this here since I found a lot of useful help on this forum and perhaps if I leave a note regarding what I learnt and then implemented then it might help someone else in the future. I have helped setup a Discourse forum at [community.coops.tech](https://community.coops.tech/) using the official Docker install, Postfix doing incoming and outgoing email on the host, with measures to prevent backscatter on Debian Stretch. The [Ansible Playbooks are available](https://git.coop/cotech/ansible) at [git.coop](https://git.coop/) and the email setup is based on the [mail-reciever Docker container](https://github.com/discourse/mail-receiver) plus [this pull request](https://github.com/discourse/mail-receiver/pull/2) (which is now merged) and the [Postfix notes for using the host for outgoing email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emails-with-local-smtp/23645/28), with an additional [Ruby script](https://git.coop/cotech/ansible/blob/master/roles/email/files/discourse-smtp-rcpt-acl). Some of the things in the Playbooks are specific to the [Webarchitects](https://www.webarchitects.coop/) environment they have been written for so they probably couldn’t be directly used elsewhere, but if anyone would our help with installing Discourse like this then feel free to [contact us](https://www.webarchitects.coop/contact). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ansible-playbook-to-install-docker-discourse-and-postfix/62496)._