# Anyone successful with running Discourse on Google App Engine?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [2014年三月5日 05:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413 "2014-03-05T05:05:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![pa5tabear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)\
**Post date:** [2014年三月5日 05:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413/1 "2014-03-05T05:05:20Z")

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I’ve read that Google App Engine often requires an app to be written specifically for it. Does this apply to Discourse? Have there been successful instances of it?

I want to figure out a good free starting point for running Discourse.

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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [2014年三月5日 05:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413/2 "2014-03-05T05:36:37Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/e/eab3039975d63afdbce2548f31d9a3559ec1079e.png) 

It doesn’t look like they support Rails, so it seems that idea is DOA.

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**Author:** ![pa5tabear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)\
**Post date:** [2014年三月5日 06:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413/3 "2014-03-05T06:26:31Z")

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Wow what a brainfart.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Rahul\_Dhingra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rahul_dhingra/32/73226_2.png) [@Rahul\_Dhingra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rahul_Dhingra)\
**Post date:** [2014年七月17日 20:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413/4 "2014-07-17T20:53:47Z")

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Though they do support docker now . As mentioned here:

> **[An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/06/an-update-on-container-support-on-google-cloud-platform.html)**
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> Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container. Each week we launch more than 2 billion container inst...

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**Author:** ![Efrat\_Abramovitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Efrat\_Abramovitz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Efrat_Abramovitz)\
**Post date:** [2015年八月18日 10:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-successful-with-running-discourse-on-google-app-engine/13413/5 "2015-08-18T10:43:47Z")

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Anyone tried this? or another free method to run discourse?