Discourse High Availability

[jakimfett]

Info on avoiding port exposure:

Use multiple Docker containers without exposing ports

Just in case anybody stumbles here for running several Discourse instances behind https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy: Set discourse to listen on a local link port and tell the proxy to use the container’s internal port 80 like expose: - "127.0.0.1:2836:80" env: VIRTUAL_PORT: '80'

Load balancing with nginx:

TCP load balancing with Nginx (SSL Pass-thru)

Enabling http2 on Debian:

How to Enable HTTP2 on Debian 8 with Nginx Web Server

Offline page setup:

Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up

This guide is intended for advanced users, who are already using nginx outside the docker container. By following this guide you make your setup more complicated and will loose some speed benefits like HTTP2 if you’re not running Ubuntu 16.04 or later. Proceed with caution! When Discourse is rebuilding or starting up, your users will usually either see an error message from their browser… [image] …or a not-so-nice 502 error message from Nginx: [image] If you’re a perfectionist l…