The new Ghost Blog base Docker

I’m continuing to work on slimming down the Docker Ghost Blog I created.

Overview

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I started the project to simplify managing my blog and, for this reason, it included everything I needed. Which is another way of saying that it wasn’t really “basic” enough to be used by anyone.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Docker was pulled many times: 100K+ (which is the max count for the docker hub… I don’t know exactly how many times was downloaded!).

For this reason I removed all the customizations from this base version I’m using in my blog, the Cloudinary storage plugin for example, providing an easy-to-use Docker for anyone.

Usage

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How can I start using Ghost? Quick and easy:

docker pull mmornati/docker-ghostblog:1.8.6
docker run -d -p 2368:2368 -v /opt/blog-data:/ghost-override mmornati/docker-ghostblog:1.8.6

These commands are downloading the 1.8.6 version of the docker and starting it up on the 2368 port and using the /opt/blog-data folder as blog content folder.

In the GitHub README file, I included some other parameters: I used them to make an automatic link to the Docker nginx-proxy. It automatically exposes through the ports 80 and 443 all other web dockers using some environment variables.