---
title: Blog with Ghost in Docker
description: How to run the beautiful, publication-focused blogging engine "Ghost" using Docker
---

# Ghost

[Ghost](https://ghost.org) is "a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication."

![Ghost screenshot](/images/ghost.png){ loading=lazy }

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## Preparation

### Setup data locations

Create the location for the bind-mount of the application data, so that it's persistent:

```bash
mkdir -p /var/data/ghost
```

### Setup Docker Swarm

Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like this:

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```yaml
version: '3'

services:
  ghost:
    image: ghost:1-alpine
    volumes:
     - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
     - /var/data/ghost/:/var/lib/ghost/content
    networks:
    - traefik_public
    deploy:
      labels:
        # traefik common
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.docker.network=traefik_public

        # traefikv1
        - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:ghost.example.com
        - traefik.port=2368     

        # traefikv2
        - "traefik.http.routers.ghost.rule=Host(`ghost.example.com`)"
        - "traefik.http.services.ghost.loadbalancer.server.port=2368"
        - "traefik.enable=true"

networks:
  traefik_public:
    external: true
```

## Serving

### Launch Ghost stack

Launch the Ghost stack by running ```docker stack deploy ghost -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>```

Create your first administrative account at https://**YOUR-FQDN**/admin/

[^1]: A default using the SQlite database takes 548k of space

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