How to create a Ghost blog with docker 🐳+ AWS ❤️

1. Login to the AWS website
2. Click on Services (top bar)
3. Click on EC2
4. Click on Launch Instance
5. Search and choose Ubuntu Server (18 or up)
6. Leave selected the free tear (unless you have upwards of $10000000000)
7. Edit security groups (by clicking on edit security groups)
8. Click Add rule - http - leave other defaults
9. Click Add rule - https -leave other defaults
10. Click Launch Instance
11. Choose Create new pair key from the drop down selector (name it and download it)
12. Open terminal
13. CD into the directory where the pair key was downloaded to and do this
14. Change the .pem file permissions with: sudo chmod 600 <<MYPAIRKEYFILENAME>>.pem
15. Go to your AWS instances tab in the EC2 page and find the Public DNS (IPv4) of your instance
16. ssh [email protected]<<INSERT.Public.Dns.IPv4>> -i PairKeyName.pem
17. Type yes to get into the ubuntu computer
18. Install docker: sudo snap install docker
19. Make a start file: vim startserver
20. Put this in the script👇:
21. #!/bin/bash; docker run -d --name website -e url=https://<<websitename>> -p 80:2386 -v /home/ubuntu/website:/var/lib/ghost/content ghost
22. Create a /website directory: mkdir website
23. Go to cloudflare.com and link your website to it by creating an account (or signing in) and going through the steps to link it to your URL that you used in step 21
24. Make a CNAME record with the name being @ and the address being the public IPv4 of the aws instance that you found in step 15 (example: ec2-54-224-132-93.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
25. Go to your domain service (mine is google domains) and set the nameservers to be cloudflare’s (you should have already done this step while setting up cloudflare in step 23)
26. Change the permissions of the startserver script to be able to execute: chmod +x startscript
27. Now run it: ./startscript
28. It will take a bit to complete because docker needs to pull the image off of their website, but when it does everything should be up and running

Please Note

It may take a bit for cloudflare to enable https. It will also take some time for your domain provider to change its nameservers and for that change to propagate back to cloudflare.