# Does discourse hosting use docker for all customer instances?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-hosting-use-docker-for-all-customer-instances/293901>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [February 2, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-hosting-use-docker-for-all-customer-instances/293901 "2024-02-02T12:33:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-hosting-use-docker-for-all-customer-instances/293901/1 "2024-02-02T12:33:47Z")

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Curious, does discourse use docker for each and every hosted customer? i.e. docker runs the discourse and the database etc?

Or do you have a shared database server where each customer has their own database?

If you run each customer using docker, what do you use to manage/orchestrate all of this??

If there is a blog post those goes into the details that would be very interesting to read.

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