How-to guides
Manage the operational lifecycle of your Discourse deployment, from initial provisioning and configurations to ongoing maintenance and contribution workflows.
Initial setup
A working Discourse deployment begins with establishing an initial set of configurations to match your use case and needs.
Basic operations
Your base deployment might involve additional configurations and operations related to external services for storage, email delivery, or authentication.
Maintenance and development
As your deployment ages, preserving data integrity across upgrades requires a reliable backup and restore strategy. You may even have feedback or ideas for future features to the charm; contributors working on the charm itself should familiarize themselves with the development workflow.