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 image officially maintained and supported by the Discourse team for production use? Or is it an experimental image that might be removed or changed unexpectedly? We want to confirm whether it’s safe to rely on this image in our production environments. Thanks

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 things out.

@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 big thanks. I’m sure a lot of others will benefit from this too especially once it becomes stable / official / supported.

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 volumes: redis_data: {} discourse_data: {} discourse_postgres: {} discourse_postgres_data: {} services: mailpit: image: docker.io/axllent/mailpit:latest container_name: mailpit ports: - '8025:8025' redis: image: redis:7-alpine container_name: redis volumes: - redis_data:/data ports: - '6379:6379' command: redis-server --appendonly yes discourse_db: image: discourse/postgres container_name: discourse_db volumes: - discourse_postgres:/var/lib/postgresql - discourse_postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data environment: - POSTGRES_DB: discourse - POSTGRES_USER: admin - POSTGRES_PASSWORD: admin_password - DB_USER: discourse_user - DB_PASSWORD: discourse_user_password discourse: image: discourse/discourse:3.5.1 container_name: discourse depends_on: - discourse_db - redis - mailpit ports: - '80:80' volumes: - discourse_data:/shared environment: - DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: localhost - DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: admin@example.com - DISCOURSE_DB_HOST: discourse_db - DISCOURSE_DB_PORT: 5432 - DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: discourse - DISCOURSE_DB_USERNAME: discourse_user - DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD: discourse_user_password - DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST: redis - DISCOURSE_REDIS_PORT: 6379 - DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: mailpit - DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 1025 - DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: false - DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: none - LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Looking forward to hearing about future plans or timelines, would love to be able to run this in something like Digital Ocean App Platform (something that clients could manage with less technical know-how).

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 disable rate limiters. discourse2/tests/docker at dev · gadicc/discourse2 dev/tests/docker Complete Discourse API, strongly typed. Contribute to gadicc/discourse2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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!

[imagem] ice6: I will try the bitnami/discourse one A hint in case you need help [imagem] Bitnami installations are unsupported Self-Hosting Community support is only provided for installs that use the official instructions: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub If you have installed with Bitnami and are having trouble, then you need to either follow the instructions or get help somewhere else. Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-05-25T11:32:59Z (UTC) Last checked by @MarkDoerr 2026-03-19T23:46:16Z (UTC) play_button Check document

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.

[imagem] 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 the meantime, all of my sites I’m hosting are done through the discourse/discourse docker image and it’s been working out here.

Imagem do Docker discourse/discourse é considerada segura e pronta para produção?

Suporte ao Produto Instalação

Moin 14 Janeiro , 2026 13:49 17

Uma dica caso precise de ajuda

Tópico		Respostas	Vistas
Community supported official docker image Development	35	9243	22 Julho , 2022
Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped? Development	211	41663	13 Julho , 2025
Discourse/discourse Docker image sources Self-hosting unsupported-install , docker	1	82	15 Setembro , 2026
Using a launcher built docker image in docker-compose Development	30	8501	27 Setembro , 2024
How to run a pulled discourse image on digitalocean docker? Product Support unsupported-install	3	1656	18 Novembro , 2018

Imagem do Docker discourse/discourse é considerada segura e pronta para produção?

Related topics