lholman / ghost-docker-starter

Project template for developing a ghost website

ghost-docker-starter

A starter project for developing and deploying Ghost themes with Docker.

Features:

1. Ability to publish Ghost theme as an NPM package

• Deploy as a Docker container based on Ghost image
• Blog config file checked into source
• Develop in a Docker container based on Ghost image
• Live code reloading during theme development
• Persistent development instances of Ghost blogs

Full article with more details here: http://paislee.io/how-to-develop-ghost-themes-wth-docker.

Getting started

1. Clone this repo
2. Install Docker
3. Modify config.js as per Ghost documentation
4. Update package.json to name your blog
5. Update scripts/build.sh, scripts/development.sh, and scripts/upgrade.sh to name your Docker images

Build the image

$ ./scripts/build.sh

Run in development mode

$ ./scripts/development.sh

Upgrade production image

$ ./scripts/upgrade.sh