badmark / ghostv1-docker

Docker image for Ghost's latest version of Ghost blog 1.0.2

ghostv1-docker

Docker image for Ghost's latest version of Ghost blog 1.0.2

Creating User and Database at Launch

To create a new database specify the database name in theDB_NAME` variable. The following command creates a new database named dbname:

docker run --name mysql -d \
  -e 'DB_NAME=dbname' badmark/ghostv1-docker

You may also specify a comma separated list of database names in the DB_NAME variable. The following command creates two new databases named dbname1 and dbname2

docker run --name mysql -d \
-e 'DB_NAME=dbname1,dbname2' badmark/ghostv1-docker

To create a new user you should specify the DB_USER and DB_PASS variables.

docker run --name mysql -d \
  -e 'DB_USER=dbuser' -e 'DB_PASS=dbpass' -e 'DB_NAME=dbname' \
  badmark/ghostv1-docker

The above command will create a user dbuser with the password dbpass and will also create a database named dbname. The dbuser user will have full/remote access to the database.

NOTE

• If the DB_NAME is not specified, the user will not be created
• If the user/database user already exists no changes are be made
• If DB_PASS is not specified, an empty password will be set for the user

By default the new database will be created with the utf8 character set and utf8_unicode_ci collation. You may override these with the MYSQL_CHARSET and MYSQL_COLLATION variables.

docker run --name mysql -d \
  -e 'DB_USER=dbuser' -e 'DB_PASS=dbpass' -e 'DB_NAME=dbname' \
  -e 'MYSQL_CHARSET=utf8mb4' -e 'MYSQL_COLLATION=utf8_bin' \
  badmark/ghostv1-docker

Creating remote user with privileged access

To create a remote user with privileged access, you need to specify the DB_REMOTE_ROOT_NAME and DB_REMOTE_ROOT_PASS variables, eg.

docker run --name mysql -d \
  -e 'DB_REMOTE_ROOT_NAME=root' -e 'DB_REMOTE_ROOT_PASS=secretpassword' \
  badmark/ghostv1-docker

Optionally you can specify the DB_REMOTE_ROOT_HOST variable to define the address space within which remote access should be permitted. This defaults to 172.17.0.1 and should suffice for most cases.

Situations that would require you to override the default DB_REMOTE_ROOT_HOST setting are:

• If you have changed the ip address of the docker0 interface
• If you are using host networking, i.e. --net=host, etc.

Shell Access

For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell. If you are using docker version 1.3.0 or higher you can access a running containers shell using docker exec command.

docker exec -it mysql bash