# Synology Docker install

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/synology-docker-install/68478>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [August 21, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synology-docker-install/68478 "2017-08-21T14:00:45Z")\
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> [@dvdstelt](#):
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> Anyone any idea how to progress from here? It seems ridiculous to install Ubuntu inside Docker and then install Docker inside that Ubuntu image. Kind of like Inception.

Having not used this product, I think the [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) is a bad fit for this environment.

This appears to be for running simple independent containers, which works well if you have all your data on a file share or separate database. In the case of the standard Discourse install, the container is the app, the database files live on the local disk, and the container management is a script called `launcher`.

For Synology, it seems you’d want a way to build images on another system, arrange for the the `/share/` mount to be on a file server somewhere, and replace `launcher` with the Synology controls. Doable, but not a simple drop in.

Or run containers inside containers.

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