info_tfgrid/collections/dashboard/solutions/discourse.md
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Discourse

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Introduction

Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!

  • Make sure you have a wallet
  • From the sidebar click on Applications
  • Click on Discourse

Deployment

  • Enter an Application Name. It's used in generating a unique subdomain on one of the gateways on the network alongside your twin ID. Ex. dc98newdisc.gent02.dev.grid.tf

  • Enter administrator information including Email. This admin will have full permission on the deployed instance.

  • Select a capacity package:

    • Small: {cpu: 1, memory: 2, diskSize: 15 }
    • Medium: {cpu: 2, memory: 4, diskSize: 50 }
    • Large: {cpu: 4, memory: 16, diskSize: 100 }
    • Or choose a Custom plan
  • Dedicated flag to retrieve only dedeicated nodes

  • Certified flag to retrieve only certified nodes

  • Choose the location of the node

    • Region
    • Country
    • Farm Name
  • Choose the node to deploy on

Or you can select a specific node with manual selection.

  • Custom Domain flag lets the user to use a custom domain
  • Choose a gateway node to deploy your Discourse instance on.

Unlike other solutions, Discourse requires that you have an SMTP server. So make sure you fill the fields in the Mail Server tab in order to deploy your instance successfully.

After that is done you can see a list of all of your deployed instances

Click on Visit to go to the homepage of your Discourse instance!