There is this open issue (which I just closed) on Discourse Docker repo asking Discourse should behave like a standard docker image a docker user excepts to be able to run discourse without a special launcher. to define multiple containers (redis, postgres, discourse,..), links and volumes, dock…

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

featheredtoast (Jeff Wong) July 8, 2025, 4:47pm 209

That was a note for why the compose sample I posted wasn’t using the generic PG image.

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