Dockerfile to build a Docker image of the Ghost blogging platform
Get the image by running:
sudo docker pull thejf/ghost
This image has a custom config which requires a number of environment variables to tailor it to your needs. This is the config it uses. The required environment variables are:
GHOST_HTTP_URL, MAIL_FROMADDRESS, MAIL_SERVICE, MAIL_USERNAME, MAIL_PASSWORD
It also requires a place to store the database outside the container, as storage inside Docker containers is not persistent. We can do this by creating a ghost-data directory somewhere on the server.
mkdir ghost-data
These must be configured as part of the run command. If you wanted to run a Ghost container as a daemon, you would type this in the directory below ghost-data:
sudo docker run -e GHOST_HTTP_URL=http://your_own_url.com -e MAIL_FROMADDRESS=ghost@your_own_url.com -e MAIL_SERVICE=your_mail_service -e MAIL_USERNAME=your_username -e MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password -p 2368:2368 -v pwd/ghost-data:/content/data -d thejf/ghost npm start
If you wanted to run this in production mode as opposed to development mode, you need to add -e NODE_ENV=production to the run command.
Now point your browser to your http://your_own_url.com:2368 and magic.
To build your own image, run sudo docker build -t <image_name> . in the directory with the Dockerfile after cloning this.
Public domain. It's a Dockerfile, do whatever you want with it.