# Automate Discourse Docker with Ansible
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install, hosting
**Created:** [7월 31, 2017, 8:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150 "2017-07-31T08:54:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@joebew42](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebew42)
#### Post date: [7월 31, 2017, 8:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/1 "2017-07-31T08:54:17Z")
Hello folks,
we would like to announce a stable version of [Ansible Discourse](https://github.com/xpeppers/ansible-discourse), it is an ansible playbook that helps you to confgure and provision the [Discourse Docker](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker) easily.
I hope that this project can be useful for everyone who wants to install and configure a new Discourse.
Do you have any feedback?
**Contributors are welcome** 🤗
At the moment we wrote two scripts (`scripts/`) that can be used to run the provisioning on a local vagrant machine or AWS. It could be useful to add support for other providers, like DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, and other.
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### Author:  [@Muiran](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muiran)
#### Post date: [7월 31, 2017, 5:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/2 "2017-07-31T17:07:54Z")
I would like to experiment with it on [GANDI.net](http://GANDI.net) is tha’s not too much trouble.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@treb0r](https://meta.discourse.org/u/treb0r)
#### Post date: [8월 3, 2017, 8:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/3 "2017-08-03T20:06:26Z")
This is exactly what I’m looking for.
I’ve been using Ansible a lot thanks to the fantastic [Roots](https://roots.io/) [Trellis](https://roots.io/trellis/) for WordPress, and I’ve come to realise the benefits of using automated provisions and deploys with the ability to store the configs in git.
I look after several discourse instances and this approach will allow me to properly standardise everything.
I’m going to have a play with this and report back.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@treb0r](https://meta.discourse.org/u/treb0r)
#### Post date: [8월 3, 2017, 8:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/4 "2017-08-03T20:12:33Z")
I’m also going to see if I can get this working with LXD.
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### Author:  [@vesper8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vesper8)
#### Post date: [10월 4, 2018, 1:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/5 "2018-10-04T13:44:27Z")
This is great! But why is it exclusive to AWS? What if I would like to use Discourse Docker and Ansible to provision this on another VPS such as Linode, Vultr or DigitalOcean?
Any chance to make this a little more flexible? Is there a hard requirement on AWS? I see that AWS-CLI is listed as a requirement
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### Author:  [@joebew42](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebew42)
#### Post date: [10월 4, 2018, 2:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/6 "2018-10-04T14:12:02Z")
Hi @vesper8, take a look at the [Provisioning](https://github.com/xpeppers/ansible-discourse#provisioning) section. As you will see there, you can easily run the provision against a local host (like vagrant), and of course, it will be very easy to adapt the script to make it works against other environments, like DigitalOcean or other.
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [1월 29, 2019, 5:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/7 "2019-01-29T05:56:49Z")
Have you been able to skip the registration/after installation wizard. I am trying to make an ansible role to install discourse and skip any GUI configuration such as register or import custom theme. it been days looking for a way
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [1월 29, 2019, 6:25오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/8 "2019-01-29T06:25:21Z")
The registration wizard will not be shown if there is an existing admin user. So just create such a user and you’re good.
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2019, 8:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/9 "2019-01-30T08:44:57Z")
Thank you, it worked for me using rake admin:create,
Now, I am trying to add this part under RUN: in the app.yml
```
- exec:rails r "u = User.create!(username: '{{ discourse_developer_username }}', email: '{{ discourse_developer_emails }}', password: ' {{ discourse_developer_password }}', admin: true)"
```
but it fails, even when I uncomment:
```
- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='discourse@example.com'"
```
so how to run a rails command with out going through:
```
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails r "......." which it works
```
and one more question, how to import theme through command line.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [1월 30, 2019, 1:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/10 "2019-01-30T13:12:33Z")
One solution would be to restore a backup with the user and theme you want.
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2019, 12:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/12 "2019-02-05T12:13:39Z")
when I added
`exec: cd /var/www/discourse && rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email= 'discourse@test.kfupm.edu.sa'"`
worked!!!
the issue was when I bootstrap the container it return an exception because of ‘:’ used in the command,
to solve this I put the command in a file.rb and in the custom command section I added
`exec: cd /var/www/discourse && rails r file.rb`
of course you need to copy the file.rb into the container.
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### Author:  [@Muthukkumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muthukkumar)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 5:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/13 "2019-03-05T05:44:49Z")
Hi @ahmed_alamiry I have added the same command in app.yml custom command section but I am getting the below error. If you don’t mind could you please guide me.
```
FAILED
--------------------
Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && rails r file.rb failed with return #
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:112:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params "cd /var/www/discourse && rails r file.rb"
```
Note : I have tried with placed the file under "/var/discourse/container# " then place inside the container “/var/www/discourse/” but both the time I got the same error.
Please guide me to configure this, Many thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 7:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/14 "2019-03-05T07:23:00Z")
@Muthukkumar what inside file.rb ?
Place the file.rb in /var/discourse/shared/standalone (or what ever path in the volume section).
In app.yml under run add:
- exec: cp /shared/file.rb /var/www/discourse
- exec: cd /var/www/discourse && rails r file.rb
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### Author:  [@Muthukkumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muthukkumar)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 8:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/15 "2019-03-05T08:31:05Z")
Hi @ahmed_alamiry, Thanks a lot for the quick response, below is the details.
file.rb
rails r “u = User.create!(username: ‘{{ Muthukkumar }}’, email: ‘{{ [muthukkumar@abc.net](mailto:muthukkumar@abc.net) }}’, password: ’ {{ password123 }}', admin: true)”
for me this changes are working again I am getting the discourse wizard setup.
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 10:42오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/16 "2019-03-05T10:42:24Z")
the account created but not activated.
you missing "u.activate "
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### Author:  [@Muthukkumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muthukkumar)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 10:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/17 "2019-03-05T10:44:43Z")
So my file.rb should be like this ?
rails r “u = User.create!(username: ‘{{ Muthukkumar }}’, email: ‘{{ [muthukkumar@abc.net](mailto:muthukkumar@abc.net) }}’, password: ’ {{ mypin }}', admin: true)”
rails r “u.activate”
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_alamiry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_alamiry)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 10:47오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/18 "2019-03-05T10:47:55Z")
**no, file.rb content:**
u = User.create!(username: ‘{{ Muthukkumar }}’, email: ‘{{ [[muthukkumar@abc.net](mailto:muthukkumar@abc.net)] }}’, password: ’ {{ password }}’, admin: true)”; u.activate
**Then:**
rails r file.rb
Notice the “;”.
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### Author:  [@Muthukkumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Muthukkumar)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2019, 10:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/19 "2019-03-05T10:54:39Z")
@ahmed_alamiry yes got it let me try this.
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### Author:  [@ElijahLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ElijahLynn)
#### Post date: [10월 5, 2020, 9:49오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/20 "2020-10-05T21:49:25Z")
이 링크는 이제 Ansible이나 플레이북에 대한 언급 없이 Cloudformation Discord로 리디렉션됩니다. Ansible Discord 플레이북이 이제 중단된 건가요? 그렇다면 그 \_이유\_에 대해 좀 더 자세히 설명해 주실 수 있나요?
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [10월 6, 2020, 2:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-discourse-docker-with-ansible/67150/21 "2020-10-06T02:05:55Z")
이것은 #unsupported-install 구성이라는 점에 유의하세요. 따라서 누군가가 Ansible과 함께 `discourse-docker`를 사용하기로 진행하더라도 여기서는 지원되지 않습니다.