Thanks in advance. I’m planning setup discourse with high availability in production environment. The below are my design plan and some environment condition. Setup with 3 application servers and 2 Postgres DB servers. Always one PG server on write mode and another in read only mode. These 3 …

[image] Veeru_Badavath: Any reason for mentioning object storage, can’t we use server internal storage? How are you going to handle multiple app servers and user uploads? A shared network drive between all servers? That may work, but our official solution for that is Object Storage using the …

[image] Veeru_Badavath: Is it possible to bootstrap docker image and that image on multiple servers? After running ./launcher bootstrap app somewhere you will need to save that resulting container image (usually done by pushing it to a registry) and then download and run it on your three app …

Thanks for the reply @Falco We are using HAProxy load-balancer and Nexus repo for artifacts storing.

Hi @Falco In my production env, I dont have internet access, so what I am planning is performing bootstrap on Internet accessible machine taking that bootstrap image to production servers. While doing this on production VM container is not coming up because Unicorn server looking some parent proces…

[image] Veeru_Badavath: While doing this What is “this” ? The bootstrap or the running the previously bootstrapped container image?

When I’m running the previously bootstrapped container image

How did you save and exported the image to the production server? How, exactly, are you trying to run this saved image in production?

previously bootstrapped image pushing to Nexus repo and from Nexus repo pulling in production server. docker run command generating from ./launcher start-cmd app and running same command in production server.

Can you share the error log when starting it on production?

run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/00-ensure-links run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/00-fix-var-logs run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/01-cleanup-web-pids run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/anacron run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/cleanup-pids Cleaning stale PID files run-parts: executing /…

Are you using an external PostgreSQL, Redis and Object Storage? That is expected when doing HA, and both your production servers and the build servers need to have access to those external services.

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Veeru_Badavath (Veeru Badavath) March 17, 2022, 8:43pm 19

Yes, I’m using external Postgres server and redis cluster

3 app servers using for Redis cluster along with application.

So I need to use shared dir/storage for discourse build dir. Thank you @Falco now it is clear for me.

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