# Integrate Rasa NLU with an external conversation manager

**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/integrate-rasa-nlu-with-an-external-conversation-manager/43839
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/integrate-rasa-nlu-with-an-external-conversation-manager/43839 "2021-05-21T20:44:36Z")
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### Author: ![baurjanj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/baurjanj/32/15523_2.png) [@baurjanj](https://forum.rasa.com/u/baurjanj)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/integrate-rasa-nlu-with-an-external-conversation-manager/43839/29 "2021-07-02T22:20:10Z")

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@koaning

spacy version used outside of the docker is slightly different. I did “pip install rasa[spacy]” in docker but somehow that installs spacy 3.0.5 while the same code installs spacy 3.0.6 on local machine. Is this a huge version difference though?

Inside Docker:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/rasa/original/2X/6/6c65b8c345d2d3854285af16dea4b35795d0666d.png)

Outside Docker:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/rasa/original/2X/9/9aefc37da3931f8dc7672e1d117540d33c81d0ad.png)

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