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: [afbeelding] 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 s…

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.

[afbeelding] 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.

Container deployment rework

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david (David Taylor) 26 september 2018 om 12:59 3

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

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped? Development	212	38482	13 juli 2025
Using a launcher built docker image in docker-compose Development	30	7925	27 september 2024
Is there a way to install Discourse without the provided scripts? Self-hosting	8	1801	15 maart 2021
Container restart - discourse tries to reinstall Self-hosting unsupported-install	24	2983	30 juli 2020
Building Discourse image from discourse/discourse - how to install plugins Self-hosting hosting , docker , install	10	196	9 februari 2026

Container deployment rework

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