# Theme automation **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** unsupported-install\ **Created:** [May 31, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-automation/228579 "2022-05-31T10:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![gabriele\_fraracci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gabriele_fraracci/32/262079_2.png) [@gabriele\_fraracci](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gabriele_fraracci)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-automation/228579/1 "2022-05-31T10:43:12Z")
Hi all, Im new here 🙂 So Im running a Dockerized version of bitnami Discourse ( the latest one ) on a Kubernetes cluster, really seems to be a great project. However Im facing a kind of problem trying to autmate a theme installation. Essentially I need to build, deploy, run and configure this docker image from a CICD, so at the very first login everything is ready. About the configuration stuffs there is the customized theme installation. As far as a could understand from several forums and docs there is no a native way to install it programmatically, i found just a click by click guide ( correct me if Im wrong pls ). My first idea was to add the theme files “manually” in the Discourse file systems via k8s, but as I can see Discourse manage its files in a strange way, renaming them according to its own internal logic and making it impossibile to predict. Looking in more detail i found this great cli called [discourse\_theme](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_theme) , the problem here is that I would still need to generate an api key from discourse first, otherwise it cannot work ( again… correct me if Im wrong ). So in the end Ive a couple questions: first, is there a different/native way to install programmatically a theme in Discourse that I missed? and on the other hand, is there a way to get an api key from discourse from a script? and at the end, does anyone know some kubernetees trick to workaround this kind of issue? Many thanks in advance best regards --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-automation/228579)._