Ghost blog docker deployment

This is an example ghost blog docker deployment using docker-compose. Development is made up of five containers that host three services. Ghost, Postgres, and MailCatcher run in separate containers, and data containers are provided for Ghost and Postgres.

Requirements

• docker >= 1.6.0
• docker-compose >= 1.2.0
• (mac or win) boot2docker

Quick Start

There is a race-condition that can cause Postgres to reject Ghost's authentication because Postgres is not being started in single user mode.

• docker-compose up postgres
• docker-compose up
• connect to http://{ip}:2368

Use boot2docker ip to look up your docker host's ip address

It is recommended you add ghost.dev to your hosts file

Helpful Commands

Getting a Shell into a Data Container

get a list of all docker containers using docker ps -a

run a new container connected to the data container using docker run -it --volumes-from <data-hash> centos /bin/bash where <data-hash> is the hash reported by the docker ps command.

Production deployment

TBD

TODO

• Production deployments do not use the same database structure as development
• Create a good way for initializing postgres