# 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:** [September 14, 2015, 7:01am 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: ![featheredtoast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/featheredtoast/32/116994_2.png) [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205/206 "2025-07-08T07:43:19Z")

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Plugins and custom images still need to be built, but for vanilla building for compose is becoming within reach these days - I’ve made a little proof of concept experiment [here](https://github.com/featheredtoast/discourse-docker-compose) for anyone curious.

Obviously, since these are all my repos (not Discourse’s™) this is not anything Official, so YMMV, and definitely do not expect official support 🐉 I’m casting this here, since it’s been mentioned folks are already running bitnami and other non-sanctioned ways of running.

The off the shelf postgres (or pgvector) images do not work for Discourse - Discourse needs to change the default config, does not connect via a superuser, support locales, and needs to support postgres upgrades without a Discourse admin needing to dump/restore.

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