# Offline Install

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 21, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827 "2014-07-21T19:52:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827/10 "2014-07-25T13:40:10Z")

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Hmm, so it’s like a simple, lightweight version of Chef/Puppet? Interesting.

I just skimmed through the source code for [`./launcher`](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/6a44b72bfbae060ea3dd5f753a585af82002f2f2/launcher), and I think I’m starting to see how this works.

When I run `./launcher bootstrap`:

1. The launcher downloads a pre-built docker image from outside the firewall. That image was pre-built from the contents of [the base Dockerfile](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/6a44b72bfbae060ea3dd5f753a585af82002f2f2/image/base/Dockerfile).
2. The launcher executes all the pups templates located in [/templates](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/tree/6a44b72bfbae060ea3dd5f753a585af82002f2f2/templates) from inside the docker image.

Is that correct?

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