How to start discourse inside a linux container?

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Hello Discourse Friends!
I managed to setup discourse inside a LXD/LXC and want to ask, is there a recommendation how to start the deamon process?

Is there a better ‘method’ than starting it with:

bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 2>&1 > /var/log/discourse.log

How can this be done with systemd? Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards,
Ingo Baab from Germany

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If you want to install Discourse in anything resembling a production environment, you should follow the cloud install instructions. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

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Thank you for this answer, Jay, but I am happy with my installation. Works fine inside Linuxcontainer… (I do not like docker at all…)

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There are a zillion ways that you might install Discourse that can all work just fine, but only one is supported here.

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Hi,
how to install it using LCX container. I dont want to use docker, because I use proxmox to manage VMs and docker cant be installed in LCX container.

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You would be entering uncharted territory and would need to build something that you alone support. The code for discourse docker is open so you could adapt it, I guess.

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You mean an LXC container? I know someone who worked for canonical and had a lot to do with LXC. He uses docker now.

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I just installed Discourse in a Docker container inside an LXD container, which may seem weird but it’s something LXD was intentionally designed to support.

How to Install Discourse in an LXD / Docker Container

If you encounter problems with Docker / Discourse failing to run in LXD then you’ll likely need to tweak some settings in your host’s /etc/sysctl.conf namely:

kernel.keys.maxkeys=2000
kernel.keys.maxbytes=200000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem=182757 243679 365514
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=182757

These are production values for LXD and for me they were neccessary to get Discourse running.

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Can you send this guide somewhere else? The site is blocking access for me, and I would also like to install discourse on LXC ProxMox

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That’s wrong

Just follow the next post from the link above :slight_smile:

edit: I installed Discourse the official way inside a LXC container this way :wink:

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