Welcome to my little corner of the internet! I'm thrilled to be starting this journey of sharing my adventures and helpful tips with you. For my very first post, I thought it would be fitting to cover something that empowered me: easily setting up my own Ghost blog for local development and testing. If you've been curious about having your own blogging space but felt overwhelmed by the technicalities, this guide is for you. We'll explore how Docker, Caddy, and Litestream can work together to make local Ghost deployment and secure backups to S3 a breeze.

Caddyfile

{
	email "YOUR_EMAIL"
}

rawb1.xyz {
    reverse_proxy ghost:2368
}

litestream.yml

dbs:
- path: /ghost/data/ghost.db
  replicas:
  - type: s3
    bucket: blogdb
    path: ghost.db
    endpoint: s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com
    force-path-style: true
    access-key-id: <S3_KEY>
    secret-access-key: <S3_SECRET>

docker-compose.yml

services:
  caddy:
    container_name: caddy
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    volumes:
      - caddy_data:/data
      - caddy_config:/config
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
  ghost:
    container_name: ghost
    image: ghost:5-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    expose:
      - 2368
    environment:
      url: https://rawb1.xyz
      database__client: sqlite3
      database__connection__filename: /var/lib/ghost/content/data/ghost.db
      database__useNullAsDefault: true
      database__debug: false
    volumes:
      - ghost:/var/lib/ghost/content
  litestream:
    container_name: litestream
    image: litestream/litestream
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: replicate
    volumes:
      - ghost:/ghost
      - ./litestream.yml:/etc/litestream.yml

volumes:
  ghost:
    external: true
  caddy_data:
    external: true
  caddy_config: