Run Ghost

Docker hosts an official image for Ghost on Docker Hub.

1. Pull the Ghost image from Docker Hub:

docker pull ghost

2. Run the Ghost image in a new container:

docker run -d -e NODE_ENV=development -e url=http://localhost:3001 -p 3001:2368 -v ghost-vol:/var/lib/ghost ghost

• -d runs the image in detached mode to avoid blocking the terminal.
• -e NODE_ENV=development sets an environment variable within the container. This tells Ghost to run in "development" mode (rather than "production", for instance)
• -e url=http://localhost:3001 sets another environment variable, this one tells Ghost that we want to be able to access Ghost via a URL on our host machine.
• We've used -p before. -p 3001:2368 does some port-forwarding between the container and our host machine.
• -v ghost-vol:/var/lib/ghost mounts the ghost-vol volume that we created before to the /var/lib/ghost path in the container. Ghost will use the /var/lib/ghost directory to persist stateful data (files) between runs.

3. Navigate to http://localhost:3001/ in your browser, you should see your new Ghost CMS!

Run and submit the CLI tests against http://localhost:3001.