IT/Community/WG/Discourse

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Summary

Discourse is a communication platform "for the next 10 years". It features a clean web interface, mailing list features and much more. Community Ops is trialling Discourse as an alternative discussion forum

Current Sites

Contributing

Documentation

 
Architectural overview

Overview

  • Hosting Provider: AWS
  • Compute Region (AZ): US East (N. Virginia)
  • Discourse Version: tests-passed

Monitoring

See https://health.mozilla-community.org/

Instances

All images for webheads are based on ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20131003 (ami-acf9cde9).

Webheads

Webheads are automatically scaled depending on demand. To find instances, search for aws:autoscaling:groupName : csa-discourse-production-as.

PostgreSQL

  • Version: 9.3.3


Name Service Flavor Volume Availability Zone
pgshared-production-c postgresql db.t1.micro 300GB us-east-1c

Note: Can only be accessed from inside the CSA VPC.

Redis

  • Version: 2.8.6
Node Cluster Service Flavor Availability Zone
0001 csa-discourse-prod Redis cache.t1.micro us-east-1d

Creating a new Discourse instance

For instructions on creating a new Discourse instance, see Discourse/Setup

Request a category

Please visit The Community IT Request Form to request a category creation. You will need a bugzilla account for this.