# When will support for deploying the Discourse development environment using WSL containers be available?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-discourse/406743
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** dev-install
**Created:** [July 3, 2026, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-discourse/406743 "2026-07-03T11:43:28Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-discourse/406743/2 "2026-07-03T11:52:47Z")

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This is already possible. See here:

> [@Install Discourse on Windows for development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/75149?silent=true):
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> information_source This tutorial has been tested on Windows 10 and 11. To set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows, you can do it using [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install-win10) feature. This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed [Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install) on your Windows 10 system. WARNING: Install Ubuntu 18.04, and not 20.04 since some installations will fail on 20.04. For m…

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