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…

Thanks @riking . Can you elaborate a little more? Let us say I have a brand new virtual instance, which does not have any Discourse packages. And say I downloaded my latest version of my Discourse app image from my Docker hub which is tuned for personal use. Now I have latest Discourse Docker image o…

[image] jongnam: launcher start app All launcher start app does is turns conf file to a docker run command. In fact it outputs the docker run command it runs, you can cut-and-paste that :slight_smile: No need to have launcher or anything installed on the box to run a Discourse instance. Laun…

Oh.. I thought there are some magic happens inside the launcher but was not.. Thanks for the clarifications! Okay, then I get more clear picture! Probably I can make a script to parse the docker command and generate Docker Compose yaml, so that I can use it for easy deployment. Then… hmm.. Discours…

[image] sam: All launcher start app does is turns conf file to a docker run command. In fact it outputs the docker run command it runs, you can cut-and-paste that :slight_smile: Not that I have any serious complaints about the current monolithic image approach. In fact I am fairly convinced w…

absolutely great suggestions, I would add that you also want a --stack so you can output the docker stack format as well which is around the corner. PR totally welcome.

[image] ibnesayeed: The latter would allow people to manually add more services (such as a local SMTP server), In case you missed this: [image] Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver Self-Hosting Discourse is al…

[image] pfaffman: In case you missed this: Straightforward direct-delivery incoming mail howto Thanks for the pointer. That was a fantastic read as I am still exploring stuff around Discourse. I wish, there was a built-in SMTP server solution as well. Currently, one has to use external provid…

I can give you an outgoing SMTP server image in no time at all, but it won’t help you much, because 99.9% of the work in getting outgoing e-mail setup correctly is in DNS (rDNS, SPF/DKIM), and in managing all the other crap surrounding mail delivery (like periodically checking blacklist aggregators …

[image] ibnesayeed: Currently, one has to use external providers or set it up manually. When I started running email servers under Linux, I had to port Sendmail myself, as no one else (who made the code available) had done so. I’m pretty good at it. When I finish moving off the server that I …

Thanks @mpalmer and @pfaffman for insights. I think I am aware of these issues as I am also managing a hosted mail server (Exim4) for our current sites that are not on Discourse yet. I am certainly not denying the issues you people have described and actually I read such things here before as well, …

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

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

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