Discourse
Launch a scalable community platform to reduce support costs, gather product feedback, and connect teams through organized, searchable conversations.
Build a thriving online space where your users can connect, collaborate, and share knowledge. This customizable platform provides the infrastructure needed to host support hubs, team workspaces, and developer communities. By centralizing discussions, organizations can reduce support costs and build a searchable public knowledge base.
Key benefits include:
- Customizable branding to match your organization's look and feel.
- Built-in moderation tools and AI-assisted management to maintain community health.
- Open-source flexibility allowing you to audit, fork, and extend the codebase.
- Seamless integrations with GitHub, SSO, and enterprise authentication.
- Complete data ownership with the ability to export everything at any time.
Whether gathering product feedback with user voting or organizing technical discussions with accepted answers, the platform scales effortlessly from startup to global enterprise.
Directory Structure
discourse
data
discourse
postgresql
redis
.env
docker-compose.yml
docker-compose.yml
services:
postgresql:
image: bitnami/postgresql:16
restart: always
environment:
- POSTGRESQL_USERNAME=bn_discourse
- POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD=${POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}
- POSTGRESQL_DATABASE=bitnami_discourse
volumes:
- ./data/postgresql:/bitnami/postgresql
redis:
image: bitnami/redis:7.2
restart: always
environment:
- REDIS_PASSWORD=${REDIS_PASSWORD}
volumes:
- ./data/redis:/bitnami/redis/data
discourse:
image: bitnami/discourse:3
restart: always
ports:
- "80:3000"
environment:
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_HOST=postgresql
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER=5432
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_USER=bn_discourse
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_PASSWORD=${POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_discourse
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST=redis
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_PORT_NUMBER=6379
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_PASSWORD=${REDIS_PASSWORD}
- DISCOURSE_HOST=localhost
- DISCOURSE_USERNAME=admin
- DISCOURSE_PASSWORD=${DISCOURSE_ADMIN_PASSWORD}
- DISCOURSE_EMAIL=admin@example.com
volumes:
- ./data/discourse:/bitnami/discourse
depends_on:
- postgresql
- redis
sidekiq:
image: bitnami/discourse:3
restart: always
command: /opt/bitnami/scripts/discourse/sidekiq.sh
environment:
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_HOST=postgresql
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER=5432
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_USER=bn_discourse
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_PASSWORD=${POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}
- DISCOURSE_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_discourse
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST=redis
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_PORT_NUMBER=6379
- DISCOURSE_REDIS_PASSWORD=${REDIS_PASSWORD}
volumes:
- ./data/discourse:/bitnami/discourse
depends_on:
- discourse.env
POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD=secure_pg_password
REDIS_PASSWORD=secure_redis_password
DISCOURSE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secure_admin_passwordCategories:
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