discourse — Launchfile Catalog

Run locally

Terminal

$ npx launchfile up discourse

Requires Docker Desktop. No source code needed — pulls pre-built images and starts discourse with all dependencies.

Terminal

# Clone the source and run natively
$ git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse
$ cd discourse
$ npx launchfile up --native

For local development. Requires macOS + Homebrew. Clones the source, installs runtimes and databases via Homebrew, and runs the app natively — no containers.

Image: discourse/discourse:latest

Launchfile View on GitHub

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://launchfile.dev/schema/v1
version: launch/v1
name: discourse
description: "Discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet — forum, mailing list, and chat"
repository: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
logo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/discourse/discourse/main/app/assets/images/discourse-logo.svg

image: discourse/discourse:latest
provides:
  - protocol: http
    port: 3000
    exposed: true
requires:
  - type: postgres
    set_env:
      DISCOURSE_DB_HOST: $host
      DISCOURSE_DB_PORT: $port
      DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: $name
      DISCOURSE_DB_USERNAME: $user
      DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD: $password
  - type: redis
    set_env:
      DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST: $host
      DISCOURSE_REDIS_PORT: $port
env:
  DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME:
    required: true
    description: "Public hostname for the Discourse instance"
storage:
  shared:
    path: /shared
    persistent: true
restart: always

Required Services

postgresredis

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Spec references for features used in this Launchfile.

requires storage env expressions ($)

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