# 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: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987/5 "2020-11-23T17:41:57Z")

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What you’ll need to do is use `./launcher` to build your container and then launch it with portainer, passing all of the environment variables needed.

See [Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205) for more discussion.

The easy solution that you can get free help with is to follow the [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) instructions. If you need help with portainer and have a budget you can ask in #Marketplace or contact me. I’m not familiar with portainer, but have built containers to launch with other tools.

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