fish/ghost repository overview

⁠Docker

This is how you run and build Ghost on Docker. For more information how to get started with Docker see: https://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/⁠

⁠Run it with local, sqlite3 database

To start Ghost with a local sqlite3 database, point URL to your blog's domain and you're done:

$ docker run -p 8080:8080 -e URL=http://example.com fish/ghost

To upgrade Ghost, just pull or build a new Ghost image and run it, then use docker inspect to locate your old and new containers volume path and copy your old content to the new path.

A cleaner but more advanced way would be to use data volume containers⁠. Just use the fish/ghost as a image when creating the data volume container, otherwise the
volume isn't preseeded with the theme and content directories.

⁠Run it with remote database

To run Ghost with a remote database like MySQL, point DATABASE_URL to your database and URL to your blog's domain:

$ sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 -e URL="http://example.com" \
  DATABASE_URL=mysql://ghost:[email protected]:3306/ghost fish/ghost

Or use Docker links and set DB_CLIENT, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD:

$ sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 -link mysql-server:db -e DB_CLIENT=mysql \
                  -e DB_USER=ghost -e DB_PASSWORD=foobar23 \
                  -e URL=http://example.com -e DB_DATABASE=ghost <image-name>

⁠Mail configuration

Unfortunately Ghost doesn't support direct SMTP mailing, so you need a relay. This Docker image will read MAIL_HOST, MAIL_SERVICE, MAIL_USER and MAIL_PASS to setup mailing.

⁠Using custom config

If you like to use a completely different config, you can bind mount your own config:

docker run -v path/to/config:config.js fish/ghost

⁠Building it

To build your own Ghost image, clone and cd to this repository and run:

$ docker -t <image name> .