chef-ghost

Cookbook to deploy Ghost using MySQL and either Mailgun or local SMTP

Requirements

Cookbooks

• apt
• ark
• database
• git
• mysql
• nginx
• nodejs
• npm

Attributes

• node[:ghost][:user] - system user to create and run Ghost service. Default is ghost.
• node[:ghost][:password] - password for Ghost user. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:databag] - name of databag for secrets. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:databag_item] - name of databag item for secrets. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:home_dir] - home directory for Ghost user. Default is /home/#{node[:ghost][:user]}.
• node[:ghost][:db_host] - database host. Default is 127.0.0.1.
• node[:ghost][:db_name] - database name. Default is ghost.
• node[:ghost][:db_user] - database user name. Default is ghost.
• node[:ghost][:db_password] - database user password. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:db_admin_user] - database admin user. Default is root.
• node[:ghost][:db_admin_password] - database admin password. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:db_grant_host] - host to allow database connections from. Default is 127.0.0.1.
• node[:ghost][:domain] - domain to use for Nginx and Ghost configuration. Default is ghost.example.com.
• node[:ghost][:install_path] - location to install ghost. Default is /var/www/vhosts/#{node[:ghost][:domain]}
• node[:ghost][:src_url] - URL to download Ghost zip.
• node[:ghost][:mail_transport] - local SMTP or Mailgun. Default is local. To use Mailgun, set to mailgun.
• node[:ghost][:mail_user] - user for SMTP auth. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:mail_password] - password for SMTP auth. Default is nil.
• node[:ghost][:themes] - hash of themes you would like installed. Default is empty.

Recipes

default

Installs Nodejs and npm, downloads Ghost, install dependencies, configures Ghost, creates and starts Ghost service.

database

Connects to MySQL server and creates Ghost database, Ghost MySQL user and Ghost grants.

nginx

Installs Nginx, creates and enables Nginx site configuration with caching and proxy_pass to Ghost.

user

Creates Ghost user and sets password.

Resources/Providers

ghost_theme

Actions

The default action is :install.

• :install - Downloads and installs the theme.
• :remove - Deletes the theme.

Both actions, when taken, will restart the ghost service.

Attribute Parameters

• name - (Name Attribute), a string, name of the theme.
• source - a string, URL to .git, .zip or .tar.gz file.

Examples

ghost_theme "ghostwriter" do
  source "https://github.com/roryg/ghostwriter.git"
end

Usage

With Databags (recommended)

Create a databag like the following (in this case, the databag is called ghost and the databag item is called secrets):

"ghost": {
  "password": "s3cur1ty",
  "db_admin_password": "mo@rs4cur1ty",
  "db_password": "s3cur1ty"
},
"id": "secrets"
}

Make sure to set node[:ghost][src_url]!

Then, use a run_list like this:

"recipe[postfix]",
"recipe[mysql::server]",
"recipe[ghost::database]",
"recipe[ghost::default]",
"recipe[ghost::nginx]"

To install themes you can set the node[:ghost][:themes] to a hash of names and links to a Git repo (.git), ZIP file (.zip) or G-zipped Tarball (.tar.gz). The names will be the name of the theme in your WebUI.

{
  "ghost": {
    "themes": {
      "n-coded": "https://github.com/polygonix/N-Coded.git",
      "swayze": "http://ghost-themes.s3.amazonaws.com/swayze/swayze.zip"
    }
  }
}


### With Vagrant
* Setup [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com/).
* Install [Berkshelf](http://berkshelf.com/).
* Install `vagrant-berkshelf` and `vagrant-omnibus`:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

* Change the passwords in the `Vagrantfile` if you desire.

* ```vagrant up```

Contributing
------------

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like `add_component_x`)
3. Write you change
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors
-------------------
Authors: Ryan Walker