Ghost

This ghost blog using sqlite as the database backend.

External Access

An Ingress is created during the installation process. To access your ghost use http://ghost.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.k8s.civo.com

Create Admin User

By default Ghost does not create Admin user during the installation process. In order to access your Ghost Dashboard you will need to create your Ghost Admin user first. This can be done right after your installation process via your browser.

To access your Ghost registration page simply access your Ghost installation via your browser using the following URL: http://ghost.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.k8s.civo.com, after that follow step below :

  • Click Create your account button.
  • Input your site title, username, email address and desired password ( at least 10 characters ).
  • Invite your friend to Collaborate on your blog. This is optional, If you don't want to invite others just click text I'll do this later, take me to my site!.

Delete default user created by ghost

By default ghost create user name Ghost and create example post in your blog. You can follow this step to delete it.

  • Login to your ghost admin url http://ghost.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.k8s.civo.com/ghost.
  • Click the Staff menu in the left column.
  • In the right column, click the user name Ghost.
  • Click the option button in the upper right ( in the left of save button ).
  • Chose Delete button

How to create your first blog post

Follow this step to create your first blog post :

  • To begin your first blog post login to ghost admin url http://ghost.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.k8s.civo.com/ghost.
  • Inside the ghost admin menu, click Posts menu at the left column. Click New post button in the upper right.
  • Write your blog.
  • If you want to publish your blog, click the publish button in the upper right. If you want to publish it later, Click the < Posts button in the upper left, your article should be automatically saved as draft.

Modify URL

If you want to change the url edit with 

kubectl -n ghost edit ingress ghost-blog

After that run deployment patch to update the url env in ghost.

First Create file patch.yaml using template below :

spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: ghost-blog
        env:
        - name: url
          value: CHANGE_WITH_YOUR_NEW_URL

Run the patch command

kubectl -n ghost patch deployment ghost-blog --patch "$(cat patch.yaml)"

Upgrade version

Create file patch.yaml using template below :

spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: ghost-blog
        image: ghost:image_tag

Run the patch command

kubectl -n ghost patch deployment ghost-blog --patch "$(cat patch.yaml)"

NOTE : You can find the latest imagetag from https://hub.docker.com//ghost