# 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, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-hosting-use-docker-for-all-customer-instances/293901/6 "2024-02-02T17:57:55Z")

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> [@rubydoob](#):
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> docker runs the discourse and the database etc?

Yes, almost all our hosting services are run in containers.

> [@rubydoob](#):
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> Or do you have a shared database server where each customer has their own database?

With thousands of customers come thousands of databases 😄

> [@rubydoob](#):
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> If you run each customer using docker, what do you use to manage/orchestrate all of this??

Now that you mention, it’s been a while since we blogged about our hosting tidbits on our blog.

Nowadays we use a combination of Puppet and Nomad to do orchestration.

> [@rubydoob](#):
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> If there is a blog post those goes into the details that would be very interesting to read.

We should follow up on this @stella 📝

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