I wanted to create a new plattform that was more flexible and ‘scannable’ by google so that it is actually possible to search and find my articles:) Both wordpress.com and Confluence is difficult to use as a publishing platform due to a lot of reasons.

With Ghost I hope to gain more control of Google analytics and get a much cheaper plattform, because I will host it in Azure and handle everything myself. And share how to do so in this article.

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Sources: https://github.com/geircode/setting-up-ghost-in-azure

My inspiration to do this was from this site => https://sergeydotnet.com/ghost-on-azure-with-docker/

But there are plenty of sites describing how to do something similar, just google => Ghost on Azure with docker. So I guess this will be my contribution:)

Goal:

Use Infrastructure-as-code to set up Azure
Create CI/CD with Azure Devops, Gitlab.com or Github Actions
Create a local development environment

How to get familiar with Ghost

A few helpful resources:

https://ghost.org/docs/
https://app.pluralsight.com/search/?q=ghost&query_id=d9913b52-e6c6-4980-b346-e2b60cbe4d12&is_auto_suggested=true
Start a free trial at ghost.org to see what the Ghost plattform is actually supposed to function and look like

Start Ghost

To start Ghost in containers locally using docker-compose

1. Get the source and start the containers

git clone https://github.com/geircode/setting-up-ghost-in-azure  
cd setting-up-ghost-in-azure
cd ghost-service
docker network create -d overlay --attachable setting_up_ghost_in_azure_network
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

2. Go to http://localhost:8900

Create the first publication

To create the first account

1. Login to Ghost Admin => http://localhost:8900/ghost

2. Create your account

And behold, the new Admin page! Here you can do great things. Or destroy everything.

3. Click on “New post” and write some stuff

4. Publish your stuff

5. Go to http://localhost:8900/whohoo/ to see the new publication

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Automation

Use Ghost-CLI? https://ghost.org/docs/api/v3/ghost-cli/