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### About
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# Discourse Docker images
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## About
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- [Docker](https://docker.com/) is an open source project to pack, ship and run any Linux application in a lighter weight, faster container than a traditional virtual machine.
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- Docker makes it much easier to deploy [a Discourse forum](https://github.com/discourse/discourse) on your servers and keep it updated. For background, see [Sam's blog post](http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/11/07/discourse-in-a-docker-container).
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- The templates and base image configure Discourse with the Discourse team's recommended optimal defaults.
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### Getting Started
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## Getting Started
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The simplest way to get started is via the **standalone** template, which can be installed in 30 minutes or less. For detailed install instructions, see
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https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
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### Directory Structure
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## Directory Structure
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#### `/cids`
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### `/cids`
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Contains container ids for currently running Docker containers. cids are Docker's "equivalent" of pids. Each container will have a unique git like hash.
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#### `/containers`
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### `/containers`
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This directory is for container definitions for your various Discourse containers. You are in charge of this directory, it ships empty.
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#### `/samples`
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### `/samples`
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Sample container definitions you may use to bootstrap your environment. You can copy templates from here into the containers directory.
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#### `/shared`
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### `/shared`
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Placeholder spot for shared volumes with various Discourse containers. You may elect to store certain persistent information outside of a container, in our case we keep various logfiles and upload directory outside. This allows you to rebuild containers easily without losing important information. Keeping uploads outside of the container allows you to share them between multiple web instances.
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#### `/templates`
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### `/templates`
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[pups](https://github.com/samsaffron/pups)-managed templates you may use to bootstrap your environment.
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[pups](https://github.com/discourse/pups)-managed templates you may use to bootstrap your environment.
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#### `/image`
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### `/image`
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Dockerfiles for Discourse; see [the README](image/README.md) for further details.
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The Docker repository will always contain the latest built version at: https://hub.docker.com/r/discourse/base/, you should not need to build the base image.
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### Launcher
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## Launcher
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The base directory contains a single bash script which is used to manage containers. You can use it to "bootstrap" a new container, enter, start, stop and destroy a container.
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```yaml
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Usage: launcher COMMAND CONFIG [--skip-prereqs]
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```
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Usage: launcher COMMAND CONFIG [--skip-prereqs] [--docker-args STRING]
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Commands:
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start: Start/initialize a container
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stop: Stop a running container
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restart: Restart a container
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destroy: Stop and remove a container
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enter: Use docker exec to enter a container
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logs: Docker logs for container
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memconfig: Configure sane defaults for available RAM
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bootstrap: Bootstrap a container for the config based on a template
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rebuild: Rebuild a container (destroy old, bootstrap, start new)
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start: Start/initialize a container
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stop: Stop a running container
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restart: Restart a container
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destroy: Stop and remove a container
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enter: Open a shell to run commands inside the container
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logs: View the Docker logs for a container
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bootstrap: Bootstrap a container for the config based on a template
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run: Run the given command with the config in the context of the last bootstrapped image
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rebuild: Rebuild a container (destroy old, bootstrap, start new)
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cleanup: Remove all containers that have stopped for > 24 hours
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start-cmd: Generate docker command used to start container
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If the environment variable "SUPERVISED" is set to true, the container won't be detached, allowing a process monitoring tool to manage the restart behaviour of the container.
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### Container Configuration
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## Container Configuration
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The beginning of the container definition can contain the following "special" sections:
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#### templates:
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### templates:
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```yaml
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- "templates/cron.template.yml"
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- "templates/postgres.template.yml"
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- 'templates/cron.template.yml'
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- 'templates/postgres.template.yml'
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This template is "composed" out of all these child templates, this allows for a very flexible configuration structure. Furthermore you may add specific hooks that extend the templates you reference.
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#### expose:
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### expose:
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```yaml
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Publish port 22 inside the container on port 2222 on ALL local host interfaces. In order to bind to only one interface, you may specify the host's IP address as `([<host_interface>:[host_port]])|(<host_port>):<container_port>[/udp]` as defined in the [docker port binding documentation](http://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerlinks/). To expose a port without publishing it, specify only the port number (e.g., `80`).
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If you want a multiple container setup, see the `data.yml` and `web_only.yml` templates in the samples directory. To ease this process, `launcher` will inject an env var called `DISCOURSE_HOST_IP` which will be available inside the image.
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WARNING: In a multiple container configuration, *make sure* you setup iptables or some other firewall to protect various ports (for postgres/redis).
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For a Discourse instance to function properly Email must be set up. Use the `SMTP_URL` env var to set your SMTP address, see sample templates for an example. The Docker image does not contain postfix, exim or another MTA, it was omitted because it is very tricky to set up correctly.
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- [Setting up SSL with Discourse Docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847)
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- [Multisite configuration with Docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multisite-configuration-with-docker/14084)
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- [Linking containers for a multiple container setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-containers-for-a-multiple-container-setup/20867)
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- [Using Rubygems mirror to improve connection problem in China](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-rubygems-org-with-taobao-mirror-to-resolve-network-error-in-china/21988/1)
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## License
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