Has anyone considered Ubuntu snap format for deploying Discourse?

Just asking. Does anyone from the dev team know if this would be a good idea?

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snap is very interesting, but afaik nobody has experimented with making and maintaining a snap for Discourse.

It would be quite a gigantic effort and I am not sure how much could be reused with Discourse docker. The dev team do not have the resources or inclination to make yet another officially packaged version of Discourse.

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it is not that of a big deal actually it can be done at packaging with script let me search for such build plugin.

I’m thinking I might try this, with the host being Ubuntu Core on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Easiest would be to make a snap that uses docker inside it.

Hardest would be reimplementing the docker container as a snap.

Okay, having watched

Snap is not the right solution for discourse, where you may want to run multiple discourse instances on a host.