Would Team Discourse be open to some fairly significant rework of the discourse_docker and any other setup and launch scripts to bring the install experience (and documentation, of course) more in-line with Docker expectations and philosophy? Specifically: Clear course to deploy the application w…

It is unlikely you could accomplish this without breaking many many things but you are welcome to try.

@rowanj you may be interested in the previous discussion here: [image] Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped? dev There is this open issue (which I just closed) on Discourse Docker repo asking Discourse should behave like a standa…

Providing a docker image with a fixed set of plugins that could be configured only with environment variables isn’t that hard. But supporting a bunch of people to use it would be untenable.

[image] rowanj: Clear course to deploy the application with existing redis/postgres infrastructure This is supported out of the box, remove the templates from PostgreSQL / Redis and set the correct environment variables in the app.yml.

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david (David Taylor) September 26, 2018, 12:59pm 3

@rowanj you may be interested in the previous discussion here:

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