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Ghost

Ghost is "a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication."

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Ghost Requirements

Ingredients

Already deployed:

Related:

Preparation

Setup data locations

Create the location for the bind-mount of the application data, so that it's persistent:

mkdir -p /var/data/ghost

Ghost Docker Swarm config

Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like the example below:

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version: '3'

services:
  ghost:
    image: ghost:1-alpine
    volumes:
     - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
     - /var/data/ghost/:/var/lib/ghost/content
    networks:
    - traefik_public
    deploy:
      labels:
        # traefik common
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.docker.network=traefik_public

        # traefikv1
        - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:ghost.example.com
        - traefik.port=2368     

        # traefikv2
        - "traefik.http.routers.ghost.rule=Host(`ghost.example.com`)"
        - "traefik.http.services.ghost.loadbalancer.server.port=2368"
        - "traefik.enable=true"

networks:
  traefik_public:
    external: true

Serving

Launch Ghost stack

Launch the Ghost stack by running docker stack deploy ghost -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>

Create your first administrative account at https://YOUR-FQDN/admin/

Chef's notes 📓


  1. A default using the SQlite database takes 548k of space 

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