# Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [14 september 2015 om 07:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205 "2015-09-14T07:01:52Z")
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### Author: ![fbender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fbender/32/116736_2.png) [@fbender](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbender)
#### Post date: [22 september 2015 om 18:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205/14 "2015-09-22T18:41:46Z")

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Oh wow, hit some limit and had to wait 20 hours before I could answer. Is that the Discourse default or specific to this installation?

Anyway, back to topic:

> [@sam](#):
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> Sure, it is doable to have a pre-bootstrapped image

Just to be clear, I’m not talking about a pre-bootstrapped image. I forgot about the Kitematic use case for a moment, sorry about that. But yeah, for that use case a `try-discourse` image, which is the base image + precompile, is the way to go, I think. Just have the Dockerfile have an extra `RUN` that is the precompile, I suppose. With a git(hub) hook, the `try-discourse` image can be created automatically whenever a new Discourse version is released. But that’s not news to you, so I should stop 😉. But having a more self-contained Discourse Docker image will simplify the `try-discourse` / Kitematic problem significantly.

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