/ghost-small-rc

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Description

Production

The latest version of Ghost installed with Nginx, Node.js and a Cloud Database running MySQL 5.1.

This template will only function with RackConnect v3.

Instructions

Getting Started

Ghost is a new blogging platform dedicated to providing a simple, easy to use approach to blogging. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.

The first step with your new blog is to navigate to /ghost/signup where you will create the your user. Ghost currently only supports one user at this time. After filling out this info, you will be redirected to the admin panel where you can start customizing your blog and adding new posts. To access the admin panel again, navigate to /ghost.

For more information on using Ghost please check out Ghost's usage forums.

Plugins

Ghost is new and is still in heavy development. However, there are already some plugins and themes to help customize your experience. Checkout the Ghost Marketplace for links. Users coming from WordPress may also be interested in this WordPress plugin to help migrate data from WordPress to Ghost.

Details of Your Setup

This deployment was stood up using Ansible. Once the stack has been deployed, Ansible will not run again unless you update the stack. Any changes made to the configuration may be overwritten when the stack is updated.

Ghost was installed from the latest version available. It has been installed to /var/www/ghost/. Ghost is running on port 2368.

nginx has been configured to serve static content for Ghost, as well as to forward all HTTP and HTTPS connections to Ghost.

MySQL is being hosted on a Cloud Database instance, running MySQL 5.1. Backups for MySQL are provided by Holland, which is running on the server.

Logging in via SSH

The private key provided with this deployment can be used to log in as root via SSH. We have an article on how to use these keys with Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows using PuTTY. This key can be used to log into all servers on this deployment. Additionally, passwordless authentication is configured from the Master server to all secondary servers.

Requirements

  • A Heat provider that supports the following:
    • OS::Heat::RandomString
    • OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    • OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployment
    • OS::Nova::KeyPair
    • OS::Nova::Server
    • OS::Trove::Instance
    • Rackspace::Cloud::BackupConfig
    • Rackspace::CloudMonitoring::Check
    • Rackspace::RackConnect::PublicIP
  • An OpenStack username, password, and tenant id.
  • python-heatclient >= v0.2.8:
pip install python-heatclient

We recommend installing the client within a Python virtual environment.

Parameters

Parameters can be replaced with your own values when standing up a stack. Use the -P flag to specify a custom parameter.

  • ghost_url: Domain to use with Ghost Site (Default: example.com)
  • ghost_email: E-mail Address for Ghost Admin User (Default: admin@example.com)
  • rc_network_name: Name or UUID of RackConnected network to attach this server to
  • flavor: Flavor of Cloud Server to use for Ghost (Default: 4 GB General Purpose v1)
  • database_disk: Size of the Cloud Database volume in GB (Default: 5)
  • database_flavor: Flavor for the Cloud Database (Default: 1GB Instance)

Outputs

Once a stack comes online, use heat output-list to see all available outputs. Use heat output-show <OUTPUT NAME> to get the value of a specific output.

  • ghost_public_ip: Server Public IP
  • ghost_admin_url: Ghost Admin URL
  • ghost_public_url: Ghost Public URL
  • mysql_user: Database User
  • mysql_password: Database Password
  • ssh_private_key: SSH Private Key

For multi-line values, the response will come in an escaped form. To get rid of the escapes, use echo -e '<STRING>' > file.txt. For vim users, a substitution can be done within a file using %s/\\n/\r/g.