FlexStack Apps

Ghost

Ghost is an app that allows publishers to grow a business around their content. Self-host Ghost on AWS Fargate and EFS in one-click.

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use case
CMS
use case
Newsletters and Mail
database
MySQL
database
SQLite
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ghost

CPU
0.25 vCPU
Memory
1 GiB
Global CDN
HTTPS
Health checks
Spot pricing
NFS volumes
Serverless file storage that allows you to share data between containers without managing capacity or performance
content
/var/lib/ghost/content
ghost:latest

Ghost is an open-source CMS designed primarily for professional publishers, bloggers, and journalists.

Features

  • Headless Architecture: Ghost is a headless CMS, meaning it separates the content management backend from the frontend presentation. This allows developers to use Ghost as a content API while building the front-end with any framework (like React, Vue, etc.).
  • Publish newsletters: Deliver posts by email to your audience, so they’ll be in the loop whenever something new goes live.
  • Themes and Customization: Ghost offers several themes for quick website setup. You can also create custom themes with complete flexibility.
  • Membership and Subscription Features: Ghost includes built-in features to support membership sites, newsletters, and subscription payments including integrations with Stripe.

Required variables

Using MySQL

If you are running Ghost on MySQL instead of the default SQLite, you'll need to set these variables. Otherwise, leave the defaults in place.

  • database__client: Change this to mysql
  • database__connection__filename: Delete the value FlexStack automatically sets here
  • database__connection__host: A MySQL hostname e.g. "db.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com"
  • database__connection__user: The database username
  • database__connection__password: The password for authenticating with the database username
  • database__connection__database: The database to run Ghost migrations in
  • database__connection__ssl: If you're using RDS, set this to "Amazon RDS"

Getting started

Once your app is deployed, head to the Custom Domain dashboard. head to the Secrets and Variables dashboard for your component. Change the url secret and set it to your custom domain, then redeploy your service.

After the redeploy finishes, open https://yourdomain.com/ghost to configure your site.

Additional configuration

Ghost is highly configurable and additional configuration can be set using FlexStack secrets and variables.

If you'd like to send emails with AWS SES, at a minimum you will need to set mail variables for example mail__from, mail__transport, mail__options__*, and mail__options__auth__*.