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README.md

Ghost

Ghost is one of the most versatile open source content management systems on the market.

TL;DR;

$ helm install stable/ghost

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a Ghost deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

It also packages the Bitnami MariaDB chart which is required for bootstrapping a MariaDB deployment for the database requirements of the Ghost application.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This chart has been tested to work with NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, fluentd and Prometheus on top of the BKPR.

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes 1.12+
  • Helm 2.11+ or Helm 3.0-beta3+
  • PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
  • ReadWriteMany volumes for deployment scaling

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install --name my-release stable/ghost

The command deploys Ghost on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Parameters

The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Ghost chart and their default values.

Parameter Description Default
global.imageRegistry Global Docker image registry nil
global.imagePullSecrets Global Docker registry secret names as an array [] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods)
global.storageClass Global storage class for dynamic provisioning nil
image.registry Ghost image registry docker.io
image.repository Ghost Image name bitnami/ghost
image.tag Ghost Image tag {TAG_NAME}
image.pullPolicy Image pull policy IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array [] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods)
nameOverride String to partially override ghost.fullname template with a string (will prepend the release name) nil
fullnameOverride String to fully override ghost.fullname template with a string nil
volumePermissions.image.registry Init container volume-permissions image registry docker.io
volumePermissions.image.repository Init container volume-permissions image name bitnami/minideb
volumePermissions.image.tag Init container volume-permissions image tag stretch
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy Init container volume-permissions image pull policy Always
ghostHost Ghost host to create application URLs nil
ghostPort Ghost port to use in application URLs (defaults to service.port if nil) nil
ghostProtocol Protocol (http or https) to use in the application URLs http
ghostPath Ghost path to create application URLs nil
ghostUsername User of the application user@example.com
ghostPassword Application password Randomly generated
ghostEmail Admin email user@example.com
ghostBlogTitle Ghost Blog name User's Blog
smtpHost SMTP host nil
smtpPort SMTP port nil
smtpUser SMTP user nil
smtpPassword SMTP password nil
smtpFromAddress SMTP from address nil
smtpService SMTP service nil
allowEmptyPassword Allow DB blank passwords yes
securityContext.enabled Enable security context true
securityContext.fsGroup Group ID for the container 1001
securityContext.runAsUser User ID for the container 1001
service.type Kubernetes Service type LoadBalancer
service.port Service HTTP port 80
service.nodePorts.http Kubernetes http node port ""
service.externalTrafficPolicy Enable client source IP preservation Cluster
service.loadBalancerIP LoadBalancerIP for the Ghost service ``
service.annotations Service annotations ``
ingress.enabled Enable ingress controller resource false
ingress.annotations Ingress annotations []
ingress.certManager Add annotations for cert-manager false
ingress.hosts[0].name Hostname to your Ghost installation ghost.local
ingress.hosts[0].path Path within the url structure /
ingress.hosts[0].tls Utilize TLS backend in ingress false
ingress.hosts[0].tlsHosts Array of TLS hosts for ingress record (defaults to ingress.hosts[0].name if nil) nil
ingress.hosts[0].tlsSecret TLS Secret (certificates) ghost.local-tls-secret
ingress.secrets[0].name TLS Secret Name nil
ingress.secrets[0].certificate TLS Secret Certificate nil
ingress.secrets[0].key TLS Secret Key nil
externalDatabase.host Host of the external database localhost
externalDatabase.port Port of the external database 3306
externalDatabase.user Existing username in the external db bn_ghost
externalDatabase.password Password for the above username ""
externalDatabase.database Name of the existing database bitnami_ghost
mariadb.enabled Whether or not to install MariaDB (disable if using external) true
mariadb.rootUser.password MariaDB admin password nil
mariadb.db.name MariaDB Database name to create bitnami_ghost
mariadb.db.user MariaDB Database user to create bn_ghost
mariadb.db.password MariaDB Password for user random 10 character long alphanumeric string
persistence.enabled Enable persistence using PVC true
persistence.storageClass PVC Storage Class for Ghost volume nil (uses alpha storage annotation)
persistence.accessMode PVC Access Mode for Ghost volume ReadWriteOnce
persistence.size PVC Storage Request for Ghost volume 8Gi
persistence.path Path to mount the volume at, to use other images /bitnami
resources CPU/Memory resource requests/limits Memory: 512Mi, CPU: 300m
nodeSelector Node selector for pod assignment {}
affinity Map of node/pod affinities {}

The above parameters map to the env variables defined in bitnami/ghost. For more information please refer to the bitnami/ghost image documentation.

Note:

For the Ghost application function correctly, you should specify the ghostHost parameter to specify the FQDN (recommended) or the public IP address of the Ghost service.

Optionally, you can specify the ghostLoadBalancerIP parameter to assign a reserved IP address to the Ghost service of the chart. However please note that this feature is only available on a few cloud providers (f.e. GKE).

To reserve a public IP address on GKE:

$ gcloud compute addresses create ghost-public-ip

The reserved IP address can be assigned to the Ghost service by specifying it as the value of the ghostLoadBalancerIP parameter while installing the chart.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release \
  --set ghostUsername=admin,ghostPassword=password,mariadb.mariadbRootPassword=secretpassword \
    stable/ghost

The above command sets the Ghost administrator account username and password to admin and password respectively. Additionally, it sets the MariaDB root user password to secretpassword.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install --name my-release -f values.yaml stable/ghost

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Configuration and installation details

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Using an existing database

Sometimes you may want to have Ghost connect to an external database rather than installing one inside your cluster, e.g. to use a managed database service, or use run a single database server for all your applications. To do this, the chart allows you to specify credentials for an external database under the externalDatabase parameter. You should also disable the MariaDB installation with the mariadb.enabled option. For example using the following parameters:

mariadb.enabled=false
externalDatabase.host=myexternalhost
externalDatabase.user=myuser
externalDatabase.password=mypassword
externalDatabase.database=mydatabase

Persistence

The Bitnami Ghost image stores the Ghost data and configurations at the /bitnami/ghost and /bitnami/apache paths of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

Upgrading

To 9.0.0

Helm performs a lookup for the object based on its group (apps), version (v1), and kind (Deployment). Also known as its GroupVersionKind, or GVK. Changing the GVK is considered a compatibility breaker from Kubernetes' point of view, so you cannot "upgrade" those objects to the new GVK in-place. Earlier versions of Helm 3 did not perform the lookup correctly which has since been fixed to match the spec.

In https://github.com/helm/charts/pulls/17297 the apiVersion of the deployment resources was updated to apps/v1 in tune with the api's deprecated, resulting in compatibility breakage.

This major version signifies this change.

To 5.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 5.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is ghost:

$ kubectl patch deployment ghost-ghost --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'
$ kubectl delete statefulset ghost-mariadb --cascade=false