Ghost (blogging platform in JavaScript) and MySQL powered by docker-compose

ghost-mysql.yaml

version: '3.1'

services:
  # Ghost
  ghost:
    image: ghost:4-alpine
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - mysql_db
    ports:
      - 8080:2368
    # Make the change persistent (statfeul)
    volumes:
      - ghost-volume:/var/lib/ghost
    environment:
      # see https://ghost.org/docs/config/#configuration-options
      database__client: mysql
      database__connection__host: mysql_db
      database__connection__user: root
      database__connection__password: example
      database__connection__database: ghost
      url: http://localhost:8080
      # contrary to the default mentioned in the linked documentation, this image defaults to NODE_ENV=production (so development mode needs to be explicitly specified if desired)
      #NODE_ENV: development

  # MySQL
  mysql_db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    restart: always
    # Make the database persistent (statfeul)
    volumes:
      - mysql-volume:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example

volumes:
  ghost-volume:
  mysql-volume: