I’d like to install Discourse on our Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes does not use the docker command to deploy images, so I’d need to build a Discourse image locally, push it to our private Docker registry, and then have Kubernetes pull the image from there. This is how we deploy other Docker-based…

We usually use NGINX+Unicorn as our minimal deployment unit and boot to runit. This should run find with minimal hacking. I there a reason why you are trying to decompose this further? Also I would definitely decompose redis in this kind of setup. Mixing it with the app makes it very hard to scale. …

Hi Sam, Thanks for replying. No, I have no particular reason to decompose, except that Kubernetes expects the entrypoint process to not exit and monitors that process and if it dies it restarts the container. Ideally I would like to run supervisord to spawn and monitor the main processes. So you’r…

Anyone done this in Azure Container Service (AKS)?

We deploy on AWS using the AWS registry, I see no reason why you could not deploy from AKS. @Jasmin_Hassan / @felicity what ended up happening here?

In whichever environment we need discourse (example Staging or Production), we have to bootstrap discourse on one of the cluster’s nodes (AWS cluster created with KOPS), after having upgraded docker on the nodes to satisfy requirement for bootstrapping discourse image. We bootstrap on one of the cl…

I just came across this post on medium, in case anyone finds it helpful [image] How to set up an internal team forum in half a day using Discourse By Ben Cheng TL;DR: I’ve deployed Discourse on Kubernetes (K8s) for my company’s internal discussion platform. Because I couldn’t find a sim…

I tried to follow the steps in the post above, but I hit this error when I ran ./launcher bootstrap web_only I, [2018-03-01T04:21:53.653880 #15] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' Failed to report error: Error connecting to Redis on localhost:6379 (E…

I thought bitnami is all open source. No?

It would be nice if some one has success install on Kubernetes can answer my questions. I can bootstrap a web_only image. During the process, I see db:migrate and assets:precompile. When I bootstrap it, it run against a temporary postgreSQL and Redis , does this mean I have to run it again on th…

[image] joshuaavalon: does this mean I have to run it again on the production database? Yes [image] joshuaavalon: Is DISCOURSE_DB_HOST and DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST written to the image? If not, how can I change it on the image? Whatever ENV you specify when you finally do you docker run o…

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I just came across this post on medium, in case anyone finds it helpful

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