ghostblog Cookbook

A Chef cookbook for building and managing a Ghost blog.

Requirements

nodejs and Chef:

• nodejs
• Chef 11+

Platforms

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

Cookbooks:

This cookbook depends on the following community cookbooks:

• nodejs '~> 2.4.0'

As of version 1.0 this cookbook is only tested on Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04. As development is continued on CentOS,Debian and future Ubuntu versions will be supported. This cookbook is heavily configured via the attributes

Attributes

This cookbook's attributes are broken up into different categories.

General settings

• node['ghost-blog']['install_dir'] - Installation directory for Ghost. Default is /var/www/html/ghost
• node['ghost-blog']['version'] - Ghost blog version. Default is latest. Will also take old versions 0.5.9, 0.5.8, etc

Nginx settings

• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['dir'] - Nginx directory. Default is /etc/nginx
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['script_dir'] - bin directory for scripts. Default is /usr/bin
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['server_name'] - Nginx server name. Default is ghostblog.com
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['ssl'] - false to disable SSL, true to enable (and redirect http://yourblog.com to https://yourblog.com), and :both to enable both http and https side-by-side without redirect. Default is true.
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['ssl_certificate'] - The certificate file to use. Self-signed certificate will be generated if it does not exist. Default is /etc/nginx/ssl/yourblog.com.crt
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['ssl_certificate_key'] - The key used to sign the certificate. Will be generated if it does not exist. Default is /etc/nginx/ssl/yourblog.com.key.
• node['ghost-blog']['nginx']['self_signed_ssl_certificate_subj']- If a self-signed certificate is generated (which happens if you do not supply a certificate by placing the certificate in the specified location), this is the information that will be used to fill it out. Default is /C=US/ST=Washington/L=Seattle/O=John Doe/OU=John Doe Industries/CN=*.yourblog.com/CN=yourblog.com`

Ghost app settings

• node['ghost-blog']['app']['server_url'] - The full server URL to the Ghost app, including the port, and any custom path (e.g. /blog). Default is http://localhost:2368
• node['ghost-blog']['app']['mail_transport_method'] - Ghost app mailing method. Default is SMTP.
• node['ghost-blog']['app']['mail_service'] - Name of Mail service to use with nodemailer. Default is nil. Supports Gmail,SES, & mailgun.
• node['ghost-blog']['app']['mail_user'] - Username for select mail service. Default is nil
• node['ghost-blog']['app']['mail_passwd'] - Password for selected mail user. Default is nil
• node['ghost-blog']['app']['db_type'] - Type of database to use with Ghost. Default is sqlite3. Supports sqlite3, and mysql.

Ghost AWS SES settings

• node['ghost-blog']['ses']['aws_secret_key'] - AWS Secret key. Default is nil
• node['ghost-blog']['ses']['aws_access_key'] - AWS Access key. Default is nil

Ghost MySQL settings

Note about MySQL option

Creating a local MySQL server/database is outside the scope of this cookbook. I am assuming if you are using the mysql option for node['ghost-blog']['app']['db_type'] that
you already have a MySQL elsewhere such as AWS RDS or on another server. You could always wrap this cookbook and create your own MySQL instance.

• node['ghost-blog']['mysql']['host'] - MySQL host. Default is 127.0.0.1
• node['ghost-blog']['mysql']['user'] - MySQL user. Default is ghost_blog
• node['ghost-blog']['mysql']['passwd'] - MySQL password. Default is ChangePasswordQuick!
• node['ghost-blog']['mysql']['database'] - MySQL database name. Default is ghost_db
• node['ghost-blog']['mysql']['charset'] - MySQL charset. Default is utf8

Recipes

default

The main recipe. This will call all the additional recipes to configure and setup Ghost.

Usage

Using this cookbook is relatively straightforward. Add the default
recipe to the run list of a node, or create a role.

Authors

• Author:: Cris Gallardo (c@cristhekid.com)