Ghost docker setup

So here I am a year later after I setup the blog without writing anything in it. Lol!

I am doing some maintenance and I see a few errors in the logs.

I fiddle with it and I make it worse.

So I google a bit and find this article that helped me when started with last year.

I and update things but it still doesn't work. I get some weird errors starting with the Sendgrid API and something about MySql 8 not wanting to use some data folder that was newer than the engine.

So I wipe (again) and start fresh.

Finally I get it right.

Here is my docker compose file. Let's call it a "stack" since I will modify it in Portainer:

version: '3'

services:

  ghost:
    container_name: blog
    image: ghost:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 2368:2368
    volumes:
      - ./content:/var/lib/ghost/content
    environment:
      url: https://blog.demir.link
#      NODE_ENV: development
      database__client: mysql
      database__connection__host: db
      database__connection__user: root
      database__connection__password: some_random_password
      database__connection__database: /opt/ghost
      mail__transport: SMTP
      mail__from: "Your Name <yourname@domain.com>"
      mail__options__host: "smtp.sendgrid.net"
      mail__options__port: 587
      mail__options__auth__user: "apikey"
      mail__options__auth__pass: "the_long_string_you_get_as_a_key"

  db:
    container_name: blog_db
    image: mysql:8.1
    command: mysqld --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: same_random_password
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/mysql

Please note I have a commented line in the compose file, to make sure I start the container in development mode. Once the actual blog is up I commented out the line about

NODE_ENV: development

Of course, you have to have your domain setup - I have mine with Nginx Proxy Manager - and the setup with Sendgrid - the part with the authentication of the domain is important.

Let me know if you find errors