luciddan / docker-ghost

Multipurpose container for Ghost with execution support for Heroku, GCP, AWS. Custom scheduling and storage adapters for multiple platforms also built in.

Hi there 👋

Welcome to my GitHub home. I'm Dan Sloan, a consulting software developer. I mostly do consulting with other software companies and clients, mostly working on web applications in Python and Django.

I run a consultancy called Lucid Horizons. We are based in Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Bunurong People, and I wish to acknowledge them as Traditional Owners.

🔭 I’m currently working on ...

OSS

• Not actively working on anything OSS related at the moment, I've had too much else on my mind lately...hoping to get involved more actively and permanently on one of the projects that interests me soon.

Honorable mention:

• Strawberry - not doing any GraphQL work at the moment, but if you are this is one of the best Python based GraphQL projects, in my opinion.

Personal

I'm (still) rebuilding my presence online after a bit of a mental health hiatus. It's been a tough slog but the unexpected decline of twitter has actually helped.

• You can find me on Mastodon. I've pretty much decided that's the ONLY social media I plan to be present in any serious way on.

Client

Most of my client work is confidential, but one of my favourites is WiFi Tribe, a company helping professionals that want to travel and work remotely in a community of like-minded people.

🌱 I’m currently learning ...

• HTMX - a great little library that enables much of the "responsive design" capabilities that makes React so interesting, without actually needing any React or client-side code. I've moved most of my existing client work towards either partial or complete adoption of this.
• Channels - I love Django, but even with more and more async support there are some things Django just can't do (SSE being high on that list). I've been using Channels as way to accomplish that.
• Hatch - Started doing some packaging work lately, and while the core packaging tools are great, Hatch seems like it fills a few gaps and lets me avoid writing any extra utility tools for version management, publishing, etc. Pretty nice.
• Wagtail - I've been doing bits and pieces on Wagtail for years, but finally putting a concerted effort into learning it fully. It's a great CMS and I think is actually at a point where I might recommend it as a CMS for some clients.

📫 How to reach me: ...

• For commercial tings, contact the business at Lucid Horizons
• For personal tings, Twitter is best! @Lucid_Dan; DMs remain open (so far) get in touch on Mastodon
• I'm largely uncontactable in any other private way, unless you already know me and have my number.

docker-ghost's Issues

Add Digital Ocean Spaces support for storage

Add support for Digital Ocean Spaces. There is an existing storage adapter that might suit - https://github.com/shiva-hack/ghost-digitalocean

Write a deployment guide for Google Cloud

Write a guide on how to deploy to GCE and/or GKE with Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Storage.

Write a deployment guide for AWS

Write a deployment guide for AWS with EC2 or EKS (Amazon's Kubernetes solution) or something, and with S3 storage.

Add Cloudfront CDN doco when/if supported.

Add support and documentation for AWS Cloudfront

Currently all of my deployments use Cloudflare for SSL and caching. It'd be great to have support built in for AWS Cloudfront (and alternatives on other platforms).

Automatically rebuild and deploy for new Ghost versions

This might require something like a Zap or some such - we want to trigger when a Github release comes out for Ghost, and trigger the build on Docker.

Quick question on the Docker Image choice

Hi @LucidDan ! I really like how you installed Ghost in this Docker image. Makes it really easy to use the storage plugins.

A quick question just out of curiosity: why did you take the route of installing Ghost from scratch instead of adding the plugins to the official Ghost image?

Thanks.

Build initial code and test on Heroku and Google Cloud.

custom scheduler adapter for Heroku

The Ghost Scheduler adapter allows you to build an adapter to talk to your cloud platform and schedule Ghost activities like publishing.

Let's build a Heroku scheduler adapter that supports the Heroku Scheduler.

Write a deployment guide for Heroku

Write a deployment guide for deploying to Heroku with a MySQL addon.
In general this will also require object storage from somewhere - possibly a Heroku addon like Cloudcube, HDrive, Storj, etc?

May want to look at Fastly or something for CDN as well. Otherwise Cloudflare.

Set up Docker Hub with autobuild and autotest to build and deploy images to Docker Hub

• Create a docker-compose.test.yml configuration file that tells how to test our code.
• Write tests for the server.js program.

Add support for themes to be stored in object storage

Currently, themes are loaded into the Docker image - uploading themes will fail because we have no persistent storage for them.

It'd be really cool if we could upload themes, have them stored in object storage (e.g. S3 etc), and lazy-load the themes from storage when they are activated.

Finish setting up repository settings

• Configure protected branches: restrict Master to PR merges only.
• Set up deploy keys and hooks etc for Travis.