# by default, the Ghost image will use SQLite (and thus requires no separate database container) # we have used MySQL here merely for demonstration purposes (especially environment-variable-based configuration) version: '3.1' services: ghost: image: ghost:4-alpine restart: always ports: - 8080:2368 environment: # see https://ghost.org/docs/config/#configuration-options database__client: mysql database__connection__host: db database__connection__user: root database__connection__password: example database__connection__database: ghost # this url value is just an example, and is likely wrong for your environment! 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 db: image: mysql:5.7 restart: always environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example