# Does discourse support running on Heroku?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-running-on-heroku/53646
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [December 1, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-running-on-heroku/53646 "2016-12-01T19:41:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![mvxlr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mvxlr/32/121386_2.png) [@mvxlr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mvxlr)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-running-on-heroku/53646/1 "2016-12-01T19:41:49Z")

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I’ve found some resources online, mostly from 2013 [Deploying Discourse to Heroku | (Un)Boxing Code](https://shcatula.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/deploying-discourse-to-heroku/) regarding running discourse on Heroku.

Has there been any progress on this? Any lessons to share?

EDIT: Guys I know it’s not officially supported, I’m asking if the community has made any progress on that. Or if it’s a bad idea please share why.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-support-running-on-heroku/53646/2 "2016-12-01T19:52:50Z")

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> [@mvxlr](#):
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> if it’s a bad idea please share why.

Discourse depends on stuff on the SO, like ImageMagick, a pg\_dump, etc to work properly. Docker is used to ensure you have an exact version of a **lot** of tools and dependencies and can use Discourse without worrying about compiling OpenSSL, Nginx and Ruby with a specific memory allocate library.