Upgrade to Ghost 5.11.0
On both domains I upgraded Ghost successfully by means of Watchtower Docker container update.
v5.11.0
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A database migration from SQLite to MySQL 8 has to be executed, which mostly went smooth.
The following steps have to be done:
- Export the content from the Ghost admin UI
- Create the MySQL database with the following commands:
mysql> create database DATABASE_NAME;
mysql> create user 'USER_NAME'@'%' identified by 'PASSWORD';
mysql> grant all privileges on DATABASE_NAME.* TO 'USER_NAME'@'%';
mysql> flush privileges;
- Reuse the Ghost content folder from the old Docker container
- Recreate the Ghost Docker container with the following YAML config:
version: '3.1'
services:
ghost:
image: registry.bierochs.org/ghost:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 2369:2368
environment:
# see https://ghost.org/docs/config/#configuration-options
database__client: mysql
database__connection__host: db.bierochs.org
database__connection__user: USER_NAME
database__connection__password: PASSWORD
database__connection__database: DATABASE_NAME
mail__from: EMAIL
mail__options__auth__pass: PASSWORD
mail__options__auth__user: EMAIL_USER_NAME
mail__options__host: MAIL_SERVER
mail__options__port: MAIL_SERVER_PORT
mail__transport: SMTP
# this url value is just an example, and is likely wrong for your environment!
url: https://blog.bierochs.org/blog/
# 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
volumes:
- /var/docker_storage/ghost-blog-bierochs.org:/var/lib/ghost/content