# Why does Discourse have to use Docker?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-have-to-use-docker/26041
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [March 5, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-have-to-use-docker/26041 "2015-03-05T19:59:01Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-have-to-use-docker/26041/18 "2015-03-12T21:06:14Z")

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Debian is horrible. We don’t recommend it. You can’t even run Docker on it for the same reason.

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