# Installing Discourse using Portainer

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install, hosting\
**Created:** [November 23, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987 "2020-11-23T08:19:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![marianord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marianord/32/90502_2.png) [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987/3 "2020-11-23T14:57:50Z")

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Because they only support one installation type, which is in a clean VPS where all the modifications and scripts run without any issue. Anything else is a custom installation and they won’t support it as the ways to use containers is infinite.

To be able to install Discourse, you need to run the bootstrapping done via the `launcher` utility. If you can add scripts to Portainer it should be relatively easy to do. Or you can just install Discourse in a VPS and push the resulting container to see if that works.

Other way, which could be easier is to decouple everything and deploy them individually, this means (in no way a complete list):

- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Unicorns
- Discourse

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