People, I know Discourse has standardised on Docker for distribution and support but it seems to me there are some reasonable arguments for also making Discourse available as a Podman container? I would be happy to have a go at producing something if at least one clued-up dev was prepared to help …

Thanks for the fast reply Jeff! I will see if I can get some enthusiam going from the appropriate Fedora group . . @codinghorror , Can you point me to a HOWTO for a completely manual install somewhere? - I have some familiarity with Rails etc . .

Here are the instructions: Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development . If you look at the install script in the Install Discourse Dependencies section of the guide, you’ll find the manual instructions there.

Thanks! I will check it out . .

Docker has been superseded by Podman for RHEL 8. [imagem] Is the docker package available from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9/10 ? - Red... Can not find the docker package from RHEL 8 onwards. The docker package is not available in the Red Hat repositories. It …

As the recommended install doesn’t use the repo-supplied docker package I’m not sure this is a consideration either way. Until docker themselves drop support for a distro we’re fine.

[imagem] Stephen: we’re probably fine I don’t exactly know how much effort it needs to support Podman, but I thought enterprise customers don’t like ‘probably fine’ support level. If running RHEL (CentOS) 8+, you’d have to install Docker from an external repo, possibly side by side to Podman…

Docker is already supported on CentOS 8 and by extension RHEL 8. I’m not aware of any scenarios where you would run the two side by side, am I missing something? It’s probably inaccurate to say that docker has been superseded by podman, only that podman now ships by default. After all, who uses the…

[imagem] Stephen: Docker is already supported on CentOS 8 and by extension RHEL 8 It’s the other way around but the linked RedHat page says, The docker package is not shipped or supported by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. The podman container engine replaced docker …

[imagem] wws: It’s the other way around Check the docker repro, they don’t offer RHEL packages, only CentOS.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) Maio 20, 2019, 5:11am 2

It is unlikely we can spend any time on it, but if you want to give it a go, go for it.

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