Working on a build for Ghost 1.0

[pascalandy]

Hello Folks!

I love the work Docker is doing for Ghost. It's super easy run and update from version to version. The official image is great!

I tried to build Ghost 1.0.0-alpha.21 and I could not run Ghost successfully :-\

Wondering if someone have found a way to run the alpha version in Docker.

Cheers!

[tianon]

Great idea -- took the first step over in #66.

[tianon]

Looks like https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI is going to be the "canonical" installation method for 1.0 (see http://support.ghost.org/v1-0-alpha/, especially "when we ship Ghost 1.0 this will be the way to install and update Ghost"), and it wants to manage installations in a bit of an interesting way (so it can handle upgrades, etc). Not 100% sure how to handle this best via Docker yet.

Might be that the Docker images for 1.0+ only include ghost-cli? Maybe some scripts to handle the common cases? Not sure yet.

[tianon]

ghost-cli appears to be intended to manage the full lifecycle of the Ghost instance (ghost start, ghost stop, ghost restart, ghost update, etc), which is kind of a problem for Docker usage. Perhaps we should file an issue over there to see if they're willing to advise on what we should do WRT Docker for 1.0+. 😇 😅

[tianon]

For reference, here's the very basic Dockerfile I've been testing with so far:

FROM node:6-alpine

# grab su-exec for easy step-down from root
RUN apk add --no-cache 'su-exec>=0.2'

ENV GHOST_CLI_VERSION 1.0.0-alpha.17

RUN set -ex; \
	yarn global add "ghost-cli@${GHOST_CLI_VERSION}"

ENV GHOST_SOURCE /usr/src/ghost
WORKDIR $GHOST_SOURCE

[pascalandy]

Thanks for sharing this http://support.ghost.org/v1-0-alpha/#testing-ghost-alpha-with-the-new-installer, will take a look :)

[pascalandy]

Hi @tianon. I found fixer on slack and he managed to make Ghost Alpha work on his setup. It’s not perfect but it can guide us.

Well my setup has multiple weak points. A) downloads lateat alpha from an url generated by my api (wrapper for github api)

So as ive said earlier its a quick & dirty kind of thing

Also the way im using env vars is a little messed up because of my current setup (using the image on heroku,openshift & local dev cluster

Its still good enough for testing  but i dont tudod nk its good enough for the official image

Dockerfile

https://hub.docker.com/r/fixer/ghostfixer/builds/bsuiay8cvngcmmklj4qzko5/

all the magic is here:

wget -O ghost-latest.zip https://api.hgrg.info/github/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/prereleases/latest/zip && \
  unzip ghost-latest.zip -d /ghost && \
  rm -f ghost-latest.zip && \
  cd /ghost && \
  npm i -g knex-migrator && \
  yarn run init && \
  knex-migrator init && \ 
apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false -o APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant=false zip unzip git && \ yarn cache clean && \ sed -i 's/"type": "ghost"/"type": "password"/' /ghost/core/server/config/env/config.development.json && \

and start.bash file

Easy try out!

docker run -d --name=ghostalpha -e PORT=2368 -p:2368:2368 fixer/ghostfixer:alpha

[pascalandy]

Here is a plain installation (not a Dockerfile) for Alpine when I follow the docs from the Ghost team.

When I execute the following, Ghost runs but I can't connect when I go to localhost:2368

The installation is probably is too simplitic for a full Dockerfile, but if it can help other folks to start here it is :)

EDIT: THIS IS NOT RELEVENT ANYMORE

# Run Node container
docker run -dit --name GhostAlpineWIP \
-p 2368:2368 \
node:6-alpine sh && \

# Connect into Node container
docker exec -it GhostAlpineWIP sh;

# Basic updates and installs
apk update && \
apk upgrade && \
apk add curl && \

npm install -g ghost-cli && \
mkdir ghostapp && \
cd ghostapp && \
ghost install local && \

# Check the installation
ghost --version && \
ghost ls && \
ghost log ghost-local && \
curl localhost:2368

# Remove Container
# exit then...
docker rm -f GhostAlpineWIP

P.S. At this moment Ghost 1 Beta can only run in development mode. Let's care about production later :)

[noahwhite]

I am trying to Dockerize 1.0 beta-2 on Alpine and seeing the same behavior when running a local ghost install. I get an empty response from outside the container even thought I get index.html when I curl from within the container.

I am guessing that when you run Ghost in local mode it only binds to localhost and thus you can't expose it outside the container which would explain the behavior I am seeing above.

[noahwhite]

That was the issue for me and I got it to work by adding --ip 0.0.0.0 too ghost install local

[pascalandy]

Cool!! I'll try this :)

I got it to work by adding --ip 0.0.0.0 too ghost install local

[dotellie]

I probably shouldn't come in here and pretend like I know anything, but whatever.

I asked in the help chat on the ghost slack (message link) and it seems like you can just install ghost the "normal" way (downloading the zip, npm i, npm start, etc) without any trouble if you're just aware about everything else that needs to go in there. I guess that would probably also end up being the easiest way for this project to pick up since it's essentially just what's here now, right? What probably needs to be done however is to add instructions on how to use this image in conjunction with the mysql one since ghost is gonna use that by default in production.

[Windfarer]

Now ghost 1.0.0 has been released, any update for this docker image? @tianon