# Discourse charm > This is the documentation for the Discourse charm, a Juju charm that deploys and manages Discourse on Kubernetes. 2026 ## Pages in this subsection - [Charm architecture](https://canonical.com/juju/docs/discourse-k8s-charm/latest/reference/charm-architecture/index.html.md): At its core, Discourse is a Ruby on Rails application that integrates with PostgreSQL and Redis. ## Optional - [Top-level llms.txt](https://canonical.com/juju/docs/discourse-k8s-charm/latest/llms.txt): Complete documentation index.