Hi Discourse team, We’re currently evaluating the Docker image available here: discourse/discourse - Docker Image This image was published very recently (less than 24h ago at the time of writing), and I couldn’t find references to it in the official documentation. My question is: Is this Docker…

Yeah, it’s becoming an open secret of what’s in the oven :slight_smile: You can get a technical preview of what’s upcoming, but like David said we can’t support it officially yet. There are tons of docs to plan, edge cases to test, etc… so we can’t recommend it for production until we smooth those …

@david / @featheredtoast , you guys and the rest of the team have done a great job here. I just switched to discourse/discourse from bitnami/discourse for automated testing and it’s working great. Obviously my use case is perfect - spin up a new forum, run tests, delete. So, just wanted to give a …

Similar situation, was looking for a quick way to spin up Discourse in a Docker Compose setup to make it easier for developers to build an SSO integration. This appears to work a treat (setup below for those who are interested): ▶ docker-compose.yml Looking forward to hearing about future plans or t…

Ah thanks for sharing, @JackNZ . I didn’t even notice the discourse/postgres image :sweat_smile: I’ll have to fix that. Nevertheless, I’ll share where I’m at too. Maybe more interesting is the start.sh script here that, while in need of some cleanup, will create an admin user, API key, and disab…

really thanks for the `bitnami/discourse` information, I use the official way to install on a restricted network, it is quite painful. I will try the bitnami/discourse one. thank you!

[image] ice6: I will try the bitnami/discourse one A hint in case you need help [image] Bitnami installations are unsupported Self-Hosting Community support is only provided for installs that use the official instructions: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md…

Bitnami is no longer supporting those. Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) · Issue #35164 · bitnami/charts · GitHub I would try the not-yet-supported stand alone discourse images. I’ve seen reports of them working well.

[image] pfaffman: Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) · Issue #35164 · bitnami/charts · GitHub will try the discourse/discourse, thanks for your kind reminder.

Is this close to being production ready now? If not, is there a roadmap/indicative dates of when it will be? Great work BTW - will make managing new releases a lot easier with a simple image tag update :+1:

There’s some internal updates going on in our hosting that turned out to be unforseen dependencies. Those need to be resolved before I’ll be able to push to have it marked for official support, but I suspect the last blockers here are planned to be resolved this quarter. It’s been a long road. In t…

Is Docker image discourse/discourse considered safe and production-ready?

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Is Docker image discourse/discourse considered safe and production-ready?

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