cthornton / ghost-docker

Ghost on Docker + Digital Ocean Apps

This is what I use to get a personal repo working on Docker + Digital Ocean Apps. Combined with a managed database and spaces, this setup costs me $25/mo - and I don't have to worry about backups, security updates, ssl certificates, and so on.

This could also work outside of Digital Ocean apps.

Running Locally

Without Docker

You can run this app locally without docker with the run.sh command:

ENV=development ./run.sh

This assumes you have a local MySQL 8 server running with a user named legacyroot that uses the legacy MySQL native password authorization. See local_migration_workaround/local-ghost-setup.sql for some sql snippets on how to set this up

With Docker

You can build and run this docker container like any normal docker setup.

This repo has some scripts provided to make this simpelr:

tools/local-docker-build.sh
tools/local-docker-run.sh

Caveat: I haven't gotten this working locally with docker + MySQL (i.e. using docker compose). So if you're going to run this locally, you may need to modify the docker config to use an sqlite3 database.

In Production with Digital Ocean Apps

This repo is designed to work with Digital Ocean Apps. You should be able to simply fork this repo, add your own touches to it, and create a new digital ocean app with your forked repo.

The only remaining tasks are adding a managed database and setting up spaces (i.e. image uploads). Since Docker containers will get nuked on every deploy, you have to set up your blog such that it doesn't rely on TODO FIGURE THIS OUT

Secret key management is done locally with