People coming from the Docker background, but new to Discourse, often seem to wonder about question like: How the Docker image is setup? Why do we need a bootstrap process? Why is there a launcher script? Why can’t we just use pure Docker or compose based setup? There is a long conversation about…

Docker image improvements using multi-stage builds and build args

mpalmer (Matt Palmer) June 1, 2017, 5:54am 2

The right place to discuss this is the topic you linked to. Best possible contribution you could make is a PR showing how all this can be done.

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