# Starting Discourse on a Specific Docker Network

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401 "2016-08-29T18:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![deargle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deargle/32/120295_2.png) [@deargle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/deargle)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-discourse-on-a-specific-docker-network/49401/7 "2019-02-01T04:42:12Z")

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My holistic comprehension of launcher is weak, but I think that perhaps the cleanest thing would be to merge `$user_args` with `$docker_args`?

- `$user_args` comes from the command-line flag `--docker-args`, and `$docker_args` comes from the config file yaml entry for `docker_args:`.
- The `$docker_args` var is only used once in the entire launcher script (alongside `$user_args`, while `$user_args` is used in all run invocations that I see.

Does merging `$user_args` and `$docker_args` into one `$user_args` var sound okay?

PS happy anniversary!

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