I’ve read threads like this and others, and it seems like to date, there’s no easy way to pop a Discourse image into something like ECS, or GKE or whatever container orchestration you like and have it work easily… I use Terraform to manage an Elasticache cluster, an RDS instance, and an ECS cluster…

I replied a similar question two days ago [afbeelding] Looking for Production Discourse Instructions installation Yes and that is the way to go. They bought bad crystal balls to predict the future. Told em to buy better ones for the next project joy Being serious, like…

[afbeelding] lktmxjv: Here’s my Discourse image, and here are the environment variables to connect to Postgres, Redis, SMTP, etc. This is an incorrect assumption. All of those are elements of Discourse, and need to be controlled by Discourse within its container to guarantee successful setup. …

[afbeelding] codinghorror: All of those are elements of Discourse, and need to be controlled by Discourse within its container to guarantee successful setup. Why’s that require this weird bootstrap script that launches containers and acts as an orchestrator though? Why can’t the Discourse im…

Well, sort of – given that Discourse easily fits into a $5/month VPS as a straightforward single Docker install image, I’m not sure squeezing a few pennies out of that number – with a massive increase in install difficulty and ongoing maintenance complexity – is really worth the hassle? Keep it simp…

As the above link describes, you can build containers and launch them with kubernetes. I’ve done GKE deployments for some clients who insisted on it because they were tied to the platform. If your goal is saving money then a $5 to $10/month is the way to go.

[afbeelding] lktmxjv: Why can’t the Discourse image accept env variables and in its entrypoint reach out to all those resources and create the tables it needs, etc.? Other services / web apps that rely on external persistence tiers have been successfully containerized in this way. You just pop t…

Has anyone successfully gotten Discourse running in AWS ECS / similar?

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Falco (Falco) 15 februari 2020 om 18:17 2

I replied a similar question two days ago

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Has anyone successfully gotten Discourse running in AWS ECS / similar?

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