Ghost is an open source blogging platform that can be used as a headless CMS. This recipe showcases how to properly setup and run Ghost on Zerops.
You can either click the deploy button to deploy directly on Zerops, or manually copy the import yaml to the import dialog in the Zerops app.
- Zerops MariaDB 10.6 service as database
- Zerops Object Storage (S3 compatible) service as file system
- Logs set up to use syslog and accessible through Zerops GUI
- Utilization of Zerops built-in environment variables system
- Mailpit as SMTP mock server
- Wait till the moment the recipe's services are installed and initialized.
- Open the auto-generated subdomain URL available for the
ghostservice. - Switch to the admin client GUI through adding
/ghostroute to the subdomain URL. - Fill out the form to register as an administrator of the new Ghost site.
- Open the auto-generated subdomain URL available for the
mailpitservice. - Check a confirmation email sent from the Ghost service.
- Use installed and running Ghost CMS to publish articles.
- Register new subscribers to consume the Ghost site content.
The difference may come down to:
- Use the highly available version of the MariaDB database (change
modefromNON_HAtoHAin recipe YAML,dbservice section) in which case Galera cluster is created. Use SQL commandSET GLOBAL wsrep_sync_wait=1;to globally set the synchronization among database nodes because of the actual state of Ghost's support for database HA. The best place where to do it is in therun.initCommandsof the zerops.yml file. - Think about some caching mechanism (such as Zerops KeyDB service, CDN) instead of the database HA mode because of the static character of the Ghost pages.
- Use a production-ready third-party SMTP server instead of Mailpit.
Warning
Ghost does not support high availability (running on multiple container), make sure vertical autoscaling is fixed on 1 container (default in this recipe).
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