Discourse on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

## Discourse on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Discourse is the leading open-source platform for community discussion — forums, mailing lists, and chat rooms reimagined for the modern web, with topic tracking, trust levels, real-time notifications, and powerful moderation. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, using Discourse's official Docker deployment pre-built so the VM starts in seconds instead of the usual 10-20 minute rebuild.

### What's included

• Discourse (official Docker container: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and nginx in one image), managed by systemd
• The Discourse web application on port 80
• An administrator account and API key seeded with unique per-VM values on first boot (no shared defaults)
• Forum data (database, uploads, Redis) stored on a dedicated managed data disk
• Automatic security updates enabled

### Getting started

Retrieve the generated admin credentials with `sudo cat /root/discourse-credentials.txt`, then browse to the VM's public IP. Before inviting real users, set your `DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME` and SMTP details in `/var/discourse/containers/app.yml` and rebuild, as covered in the deployment guide on cloudimg.co.uk.