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Docker image — This is a Docker image to run Ghost (v 2.x.x) in a container 🐳. Fully compatible with a simple docker run, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes. Ensure you have Docker installed on your machine.
What is Ghost? — Ghost is an open source software that lets you create your website with a blog. See the FAQ section for more details.
- Use a complexe but easy to follow multi-stage build. This docker image is much smaller. See details below.
- Use a
node-corelayer in order to not include npm, yarn, npx and friends in the final docker image - Compress
nodeusingupx - Use tini
- Use a better
config.production.jsontemplate. These overide the default one - Have
curlin the final image to supporthealthchecks - Enhanced unit tests with scanners (Aqua Security, Trivy) when Travis CI does it's thing
- Using LABELS based on the opencontainer standard
- Uninstall the
ghost clito save some space in the final docker image - Use
npm cache clean --forceto safe some space - The Docker image is multi-arch ready:
AMD64,ARM64,ARM - Feature requests are tracked in our issues
Overall, I do my best to apply best practices. Please let me know if something can be improved :)
multi-stage / using my node-core
devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.4-77c5e56 201 MB (74 MO)
multi-stage / simply using node_10.16-alpine
devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.3-bf541c7 246 MB (79 MO)
single-stage docker official
ghost:alpine / simply using node_10.16-alpine 284MB (123 MB)
Want to try Ghost quickly? This is for you!
play-with-ghost.com is a playground to learn about Ghost. What's remarkable here, is that you have the option to log into the admin panel of each live demo available, by using dummy credentials.
In short, you can try Ghost on the spot without having to sign-up!
First, find the latest docker images tags 🐳.
Find the latest tags here: https://hub.docker.com/r/devmtl/ghostfire/tags/
https://travis-ci.org/firepress-org/ghostfire
At this point, this docker image has been pulled more than 11 millions of time!
- Run the script by typing:
./runup.sh
GHOSTFIRE_IMG="devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.4-77c5e56"
docker run -d \
—name ghostblog \
-p 2368:2368 \
-e url=http://localhost:2368 \
${GHOSTFIRE_IMG}
GHOSTFIRE_IMG="devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.4-77c5e56"
docker run -d \
—name ghostblog \
-p 2368:2368 \
-e url=http://localhost:2368 \
-v /myuser/localpath/ghost/content:/var/lib/ghost/content \
-v /myuser/localpath/ghost/content:/var/lib/ghost/config.production.json \
${GHOSTFIRE_IMG}
To configure the config.production.json refer the ghost docs.
For the stable branch, I recommend using the tag from the first line:
devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.4-77c5e56 (best practice)
devmtl/ghostfire:2.23.4
devmtl/ghostfire:stable
For the edge branch (for dev), I recommend using the tag from the last line:
devmtl/ghostfire:edge-2.23.4-7d64db0
devmtl/ghostfire:edge-2.23.4
devmtl/ghostfire:edge
edge into master. We don’t do this. Instead, think of it as independent projects. The main reason is that the .travis.yml is not the same in those two branches.
Let's understand our processes.
Because we run a lot of websites in production using this image, we prefer to do UAT (unit acceptance tests) using the edge branch. In other words, it’s a manual checkpoint to avoid a crash at scale. DevOps best practices are essential to us. Many checkpoints ensure this Docker image for Ghost software runs smoothly.
It also has the advantage of keeping a clean commit history in the master branch (without doing git-fu all the time).
In this post « How we update hundreds of Ghost's websites on Docker Swarm? », we explain how we deploy Ghost in production and which best practices we do follow.
I open sourced my setup here. It’s a workflow to run Ghost locally within a Docker container. Once your local paths are defined, it’s enjoyable and easy to work between many themes.
Breaking change. If you still run Ghost 0.11.xx (not recommanded!), be aware of the container's path difference.
- Ghost 2.x.x is: /var/lib/ghost/content
- Ghost 1.x.x is: /var/lib/ghost/content
- Ghost 0.11.x is: /var/lib/ghost
SQLite Database
This Docker image for Ghost uses SQLite. There is nothing special to configure.
What is the Node.js version?
We follow the latest Node supported version. See this in the Dockerfile.
docker exec <container-id> node --version
You can also see this information in the Travis CI logs.
At FirePress we empower entrepreneurs and small organizations to create their websites on top of Ghost.
At the moment, our pricing for hosting one Ghost website is $15 (Canadian dollars). This price will be only available for our first 100 new clients, starting May 1st, 2019 🙌. See our pricing section for details.
More details about this annoucement on Ghost's forum.
The power of communities pull request and forks means that 1 + 1 = 3. You can help to make this repo a better one! Here is how:
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b my-new-feature - Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin my-new-feature - Submit a pull request
Check this post for more details: Contributing to our Github project. Also, by contributing you agree to the Contributor Code of Conduct on GitHub. It's plain common sense really.
- This git repo is under the GNU V3 license. Find it here.
- The Ghost’s software is under the MIT license. Find it here.
- This Git repo is available at https://github.com/firepress-org/ghostfire
- Forked from the official Ghost image
Our mission is to empower freelancers and small organizations to build an outstanding mobile-first website.
Because we believe your website should speak up in your name, we consider our mission completed once your site has become your impresario.
For more info about the man behind the startup, check out my now page. You can also follow me on Twitter @askpascalandy.
— The FirePress Team 🔥📰