Self-host Ghost

copy# Ghost 6 — the official Docker image (ghost:6-alpine) with MySQL 8, per its Docker Hub compose example
# (Ghost's own Docker Compose tooling, TryGhost/ghost-docker, is a preview and needs a domain + SMTP)
mkdir -p ghost && cd ghost
echo "DB_PASS=$(openssl rand -hex 16)" > .env
cat > docker-compose.yml <<'EOF'
services:
  ghost:
    image: ghost:6-alpine
    restart: always
    ports: ["8080:2368"]
    depends_on: [db]
    environment:
      database__client: mysql
      database__connection__host: db
      database__connection__user: root
      database__connection__password: ${DB_PASS}
      database__connection__database: ghost
      url: http://SERVER_IP:8080
    volumes: ["ghost:/var/lib/ghost/content"]
  db:
    image: mysql:8.0
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASS}
    volumes: ["db:/var/lib/mysql"]
volumes:
  ghost:
  db:
EOF
# set url to your real address (production needs HTTPS behind a reverse proxy), then:
docker compose up -d   #  →  http://SERVER_IP:8080/ghost  (create the owner account)