charts/bitnami/ghost

Bitnami Secure Images Helm chart for Ghost

Ghost is an open source publishing platform designed to create blogs, magazines, and news sites. It includes a simple markdown editor with preview, theming, and SEO built-in to simplify editing.

Overview of Ghost

Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

helm install my-release oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/ghost

Why use Bitnami Secure Images?

Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?

• Hardened secure images of popular open source software with Near-Zero Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability Triage & Prioritization with VEX Statements, KEV and EPSS Scores
• Compliance focus with FIPS, STIG, and air-gap options, including secure bill of materials (SBOM)
• Software supply chain provenance attestation through in-toto
• First class support for the internet’s favorite Helm charts

Each image comes with valuable security metadata. You can view the metadata in our public catalog here. Note: Some data is only available with commercial subscriptions to BSI.

If you are looking for our previous generation of images based on Debian Linux, please see the Bitnami Legacy registry.

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a Ghost deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

It also packages the Bitnami MySQL chart which is required for bootstrapping a MySQL deployment for the database requirements of the Ghost application.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.23+
• Helm 3.8.0+
• PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
• ReadWriteMany volumes for deployment scaling

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/ghost

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

The command deploys Ghost on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip

: List all releases using helm list

Configuration and installation details

Resource requests and limits

Bitnami charts allow setting resource requests and limits for all containers inside the chart deployment. These are inside the resources value (check parameter table). Setting requests is essential for production workloads and these should be adapted to your specific use case.

To make this process easier, the chart contains the resourcesPreset values, which automatically sets the resources section according to different presets. Check these presets in the bitnami/common chart. However, in production workloads using resourcesPreset is discouraged as it may not fully adapt to your specific needs. Find more information on container resource management in the official Kubernetes documentation.

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

External database support

You may want to have Ghost connect to an external database rather than installing one inside your cluster. Typical reasons for this are to use a managed database service, or to share a common database server for all your applications. To achieve this, the chart allows you to specify credentials for an external database with the externalDatabase parameter. You should also disable the MySQL installation with the mysql.enabled option. Here is an example:

mysql.enabled=false
externalDatabase.host=myexternalhost
externalDatabase.user=myuser
externalDatabase.password=mypassword
externalDatabase.database=mydatabase
externalDatabase.port=3306

Update credentials

Bitnami charts configure credentials at first boot. Any further change in the secrets or credentials require manual intervention. Follow these instructions:

• Update the user password following the upstream documentation
• Update the password secret with the new values (replace the SECRET_NAME, PASSWORD and SMTP_PASSWORD placeholders)

kubectl create secret generic SECRET_NAME --from-literal=ghost-password=PASSWORD --from-literal=smtp-password=SMTP_PASSWORD --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -

Configure Ingress

This chart provides support for Ingress resources. If you have an ingress controller installed on your cluster, such as nginx-ingress-controller or contour you can utilize the ingress controller to serve your application.To enable Ingress integration, set ingress.enabled to true.

The most common scenario is to have one host name mapped to the deployment. In this case, the ingress.hostname property can be used to set the host name. The ingress.tls parameter can be used to add the TLS configuration for this host.

However, it is also possible to have more than one host. To facilitate this, the ingress.extraHosts parameter (if available) can be set with the host names specified as an array. The ingress.extraTLS parameter (if available) can also be used to add the TLS configuration for extra hosts.

NOTE: For each host specified in the ingress.extraHosts parameter, it is necessary to set a name, path, and any annotations that the Ingress controller should know about. Not all annotations are supported by all Ingress controllers, but this annotation reference document lists the annotations supported by many popular Ingress controllers.

Adding the TLS parameter (where available) will cause the chart to generate HTTPS URLs, and the application will be available on port 443. The actual TLS secrets do not have to be generated by this chart. However, if TLS is enabled, the Ingress record will not work until the TLS secret exists.

Learn more about Ingress controllers.

Configure TLS Secrets for use with Ingress

This chart facilitates the creation of TLS secrets for use with the Ingress controller (although this is not mandatory). There are several common use cases:

• Generate certificate secrets based on chart parameters.
• Enable externally generated certificates.
• Manage application certificates via an external service (like cert-manager).
• Create self-signed certificates within the chart (if supported).

In the first two cases, a certificate and a key are needed. Files are expected in .pem format.

Here is an example of a certificate file:

NOTE: There may be more than one certificate if there is a certificate chain.

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIID6TCCAtGgAwIBAgIJAIaCwivkeB5EMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMFYxCzAJBgNV
...
jScrvkiBO65F46KioCL9h5tDvomdU1aqpI/CBzhvZn1c0ZTf87tGQR8NK7v7
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Here is an example of a certificate key:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEogIBAAKCAQEAvLYcyu8f3skuRyUgeeNpeDvYBCDcgq+LsWap6zbX5f8oLqp4
...
wrj2wDbCDCFmfqnSJ+dKI3vFLlEz44sAV8jX/kd4Y6ZTQhlLbYc=
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

• If using Helm to manage the certificates based on the parameters, copy these values into the certificate and key values for a given *.ingress.secrets entry.
• If managing TLS secrets separately, it is necessary to create a TLS secret with name INGRESS_HOSTNAME-tls (where INGRESS_HOSTNAME is a placeholder to be replaced with the hostname you set using the *.ingress.hostname parameter).
• If your cluster has a cert-manager add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates, add to *.ingress.annotations the corresponding ones for cert-manager.
• If using self-signed certificates created by Helm, set both *.ingress.tls and *.ingress.selfSigned to true.

Configure extra environment variables

To add extra environment variables (useful for advanced operations like custom init scripts), use the extraEnvVars property.

extraEnvVars:
  - name: LOG_LEVEL
    value: DEBUG

Alternatively, use a ConfigMap or a Secret with the environment variables. To do so, use the extraEnvVarsCM or the extraEnvVarsSecret values.

Configure Sidecars and Init Containers

If additional containers are needed in the same pod as Ghost (such as additional metrics or logging exporters), they can be defined using the sidecars parameter.

sidecars:
- name: your-image-name
  image: your-image
  imagePullPolicy: Always
  ports:
  - name: portname
    containerPort: 1234

If these sidecars export extra ports, extra port definitions can be added using the service.extraPorts parameter (where available), as shown in the example below:

service:
  extraPorts:
  - name: extraPort
    port: 11311
    targetPort: 11311

NOTE: This Helm chart already includes sidecar containers for the Prometheus exporters (where applicable). These can be activated by adding the --enable-metrics=true parameter at deployment time. The sidecars parameter should therefore only be used for any extra sidecar containers.

If additional init containers are needed in the same pod, they can be defined using the initContainers parameter. Here is an example:

initContainers:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
      - name: portname
        containerPort: 1234

Learn more about sidecar containers and init containers.

Deploy extra resources

There are cases where you may want to deploy extra objects, such a ConfigMap containing your app's configuration or some extra deployment with a micro service used by your app. For covering this case, the chart allows adding the full specification of other objects using the extraDeploy parameter.

Set Pod affinity

This chart allows you to set custom Pod affinity using the affinity parameter(s). Find more information about Pod affinity in the Kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, you can use the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the podAffinityPreset, podAntiAffinityPreset, or nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Backup and restore

To back up and restore Helm chart deployments on Kubernetes, you need to back up the persistent volumes from the source deployment and attach them to a new deployment using Velero, a Kubernetes backup/restore tool. Find the instructions for using Velero in this guide.

Persistence

The Bitnami Ghost image stores the Ghost data and configurations at the /bitnami/ghost and /bitnami/apache paths of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

Parameters

Global parameters

Name	Description	Value
global.imageRegistry	Global Docker image registry	""
global.imagePullSecrets	Global Docker registry secret names as an array	[]
global.defaultStorageClass	Global default StorageClass for Persistent Volume(s)	""
global.security.allowInsecureImages	Allows skipping image verification	false
global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext	Adapt the securityContext sections of the deployment to make them compatible with Openshift restricted-v2 SCC: remove runAsUser, runAsGroup and fsGroup and let the platform use their allowed default IDs. Possible values: auto (apply if the detected running cluster is Openshift), force (perform the adaptation always), disabled (do not perform adaptation)	auto

Common parameters

Name	Description	Value
kubeVersion	Override Kubernetes version	""
nameOverride	String to partially override common.names.fullname	""
fullnameOverride	String to fully override common.names.fullname	""
commonLabels	Labels to add to all deployed objects	{}
commonAnnotations	Annotations to add to all deployed objects	{}
clusterDomain	Kubernetes cluster domain name	cluster.local
extraDeploy	Array of extra objects to deploy with the release	[]
usePasswordFiles	Mount credentials as files instead of using environment variables	true
diagnosticMode.enabled	Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden)	false
diagnosticMode.command	Command to override all containers in the deployment	["sleep"]
diagnosticMode.args	Args to override all containers in the deployment	["infinity"]

Ghost Image parameters

Name	Description	Value
image.registry	Ghost image registry	REGISTRY_NAME
image.repository	Ghost image repository	REPOSITORY_NAME/ghost
image.digest	Ghost image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag	""
image.pullPolicy	Ghost image pull policy	IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets	Ghost image pull secrets	[]
image.debug	Enable image debug mode	false

Ghost Configuration parameters

Name	Description	Value
ghostUsername	Ghost user name	user
ghostPassword	Ghost user password	""
existingSecret	Name of existing secret containing Ghost credentials	""
ghostEmail	Ghost user email	user@example.com
ghostBlogTitle	Ghost Blog title	User's Blog
ghostHost	Ghost host to create application URLs	""
ghostPath	URL sub path where to server the Ghost application	/
ghostEnableHttps	Configure Ghost to build application URLs using https	false
smtpHost	SMTP server host	""
smtpPort	SMTP server port	""
smtpUser	SMTP username	""
smtpPassword	SMTP user password	""
smtpService	SMTP service	""
smtpProtocol	SMTP protocol (ssl or tls)	""
smtpExistingSecret	The name of an existing secret with SMTP credentials	""
allowEmptyPassword	Allow the container to be started with blank passwords	true
ghostSkipInstall	Skip performing the initial bootstrapping for Ghost	false
command	Override default container command (useful when using custom images)	[]
args	Override default container args (useful when using custom images)	[]
extraEnvVars	Array with extra environment variables to add to the Ghost container	[]
extraEnvVarsCM	Name of existing ConfigMap containing extra env vars	""
extraEnvVarsSecret	Name of existing Secret containing extra env vars	""

Ghost deployment parameters

Name	Description	Value
replicaCount	Number of Ghost replicas to deploy	1
updateStrategy.type	Ghost deployment strategy type	RollingUpdate
priorityClassName	Ghost pod priority class name	""
schedulerName	Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default)	""
topologySpreadConstraints	Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment	[]
automountServiceAccountToken	Mount Service Account token in pod	false
hostAliases	Ghost pod host aliases	[]
extraVolumes	Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for Ghost pods	[]
extraVolumeMounts	Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for Ghost container(s)	[]
sidecars	Add additional sidecar containers to the Ghost pod	[]
initContainers	Add additional init containers to the Ghost pods	[]
pdb.create	Enable/disable a Pod Disruption Budget creation	true
pdb.minAvailable	Minimum number/percentage of pods that should remain scheduled	""
pdb.maxUnavailable	Maximum number/percentage of pods that may be made unavailable. Defaults to 1 if both pdb.minAvailable and pdb.maxUnavailable are empty.	""
lifecycleHooks	Add lifecycle hooks to the Ghost deployment	{}
podLabels	Extra labels for Ghost pods	{}
podAnnotations	Annotations for Ghost pods	{}
podAffinityPreset	Pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
podAntiAffinityPreset	Pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	soft
nodeAffinityPreset.type	Node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
nodeAffinityPreset.key	Node label key to match. Ignored if affinity is set	""
nodeAffinityPreset.values	Node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set	[]
affinity	Affinity for pod assignment	{}
nodeSelector	Node labels for pod assignment	{}
tolerations	Tolerations for pod assignment	[]
resourcesPreset	Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if resources is set (resources is recommended for production).	micro
resources	Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads)	{}
containerPorts.http	Ghost HTTP container port	2368
containerPorts.https	Ghost HTTPS container port	2368
extraContainerPorts	Optionally specify extra list of additional ports for WordPress container(s)	[]
podSecurityContext.enabled	Enabled Ghost pods' Security Context	true
podSecurityContext.fsGroupChangePolicy	Set filesystem group change policy	Always
podSecurityContext.sysctls	Set kernel settings using the sysctl interface	[]
podSecurityContext.supplementalGroups	Set filesystem extra groups	[]
podSecurityContext.fsGroup	Set Ghost pod's Security Context fsGroup	1001
containerSecurityContext.enabled	Enabled containers' Security Context	true
containerSecurityContext.seLinuxOptions	Set SELinux options in container	{}
containerSecurityContext.runAsUser	Set containers' Security Context runAsUser	1001
containerSecurityContext.runAsGroup	Set containers' Security Context runAsGroup	1001
containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot	Set container's Security Context runAsNonRoot	true
containerSecurityContext.privileged	Set container's Security Context privileged	false
containerSecurityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem	Set container's Security Context readOnlyRootFilesystem	true
containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation	Set container's Security Context allowPrivilegeEscalation	false
containerSecurityContext.capabilities.drop	List of capabilities to be dropped	["ALL"]
containerSecurityContext.seccompProfile.type	Set container's Security Context seccomp profile	RuntimeDefault
startupProbe.enabled	Enable startupProbe	false
startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for startupProbe	120
startupProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for startupProbe	10
startupProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for startupProbe	5
startupProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for startupProbe	6
startupProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for startupProbe	1
livenessProbe.enabled	Enable livenessProbe	true
livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe	120
livenessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for livenessProbe	10
livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for livenessProbe	5
livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for livenessProbe	6
livenessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for livenessProbe	1
readinessProbe.enabled	Enable readinessProbe	true
readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe	30
readinessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for readinessProbe	5
readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for readinessProbe	3
readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for readinessProbe	6
readinessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for readinessProbe	1
customLivenessProbe	Custom livenessProbe that overrides the default one	{}
customReadinessProbe	Custom readinessProbe that overrides the default one	{}

Traffic Exposure Parameters

Name	Description	Value
service.type	Ghost service type	LoadBalancer
service.ports.http	Ghost service HTTP port	80
service.ports.https	Ghost service HTTPS port	443
service.nodePorts.http	Node port for HTTP	""
service.nodePorts.https	Node port for HTTPS	""
service.clusterIP	Ghost service Cluster IP	""
service.loadBalancerIP	Ghost service Load Balancer IP	""
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	Ghost service Load Balancer sources	[]
service.externalTrafficPolicy	Ghost service external traffic policy	Cluster
service.annotations	Additional custom annotations for Ghost service	{}
service.extraPorts	Extra port to expose on Ghost service	[]
service.sessionAffinity	Session Affinity for Kubernetes service, can be "None" or "ClientIP"	None
service.sessionAffinityConfig	Additional settings for the sessionAffinity	{}
ingress.enabled	Enable ingress record generation for Ghost	false
ingress.pathType	Ingress path type	ImplementationSpecific
ingress.apiVersion	Force Ingress API version (automatically detected if not set)	""
ingress.hostname	Default host for the ingress record	ghost.local
ingress.path	Default path for the ingress record	/
ingress.annotations	Additional annotations for the Ingress resource. To enable certificate autogeneration, place here your cert-manager annotations.	{}
ingress.tls	Enable TLS configuration for the host defined at ingress.hostname parameter	false
ingress.selfSigned	Create a TLS secret for this ingress record using self-signed certificates generated by Helm	false
ingress.extraHosts	An array with additional hostname(s) to be covered with the ingress record	[]
ingress.extraPaths	An array with additional arbitrary paths that may need to be added to the ingress under the main host	[]
ingress.extraTls	TLS configuration for additional hostname(s) to be covered with this ingress record	[]
ingress.secrets	Custom TLS certificates as secrets	[]
ingress.ingressClassName	IngressClass that will be be used to implement the Ingress (Kubernetes 1.18+)	""
ingress.extraRules	Additional rules to be covered with this ingress record	[]

Persistence Parameters

Name	Description	Value
persistence.enabled	Enable persistence using Persistent Volume Claims	true
persistence.storageClass	Persistent Volume storage class	""
persistence.annotations	Additional custom annotations for the PVC	{}
persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume access modes	[]
persistence.size	Persistent Volume size	8Gi
persistence.existingClaim	The name of an existing PVC to use for persistence	""
persistence.subPath	The name of a volume's sub path to mount for persistence	""
volumePermissions.enabled	Enable init container that changes the owner/group of the PV mount point to runAsUser:fsGroup	false
volumePermissions.image.registry	OS Shell + Utility image registry	REGISTRY_NAME
volumePermissions.image.repository	OS Shell + Utility image repository	REPOSITORY_NAME/os-shell
volumePermissions.image.digest	OS Shell + Utility image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag	""
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy	OS Shell + Utility image pull policy	IfNotPresent
volumePermissions.image.pullSecrets	OS Shell + Utility image pull secrets	[]
volumePermissions.resourcesPreset	Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if volumePermissions.resources is set (volumePermissions.resources is recommended for production).	none
volumePermissions.resources	Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads)	{}
volumePermissions.securityContext.seLinuxOptions	Set SELinux options in container	{}
volumePermissions.securityContext.runAsUser	Set init container's Security Context runAsUser	0

Database Parameters

Name	Description	Value
mysql.enabled	Deploy a MySQL server to satisfy the applications database requirements	true
mysql.architecture	MySQL architecture. Allowed values: standalone or replication	standalone
mysql.auth.rootPassword	MySQL root password	""
mysql.auth.database	MySQL custom database	bitnami_ghost
mysql.auth.username	MySQL custom user name	bn_ghost
mysql.auth.password	MySQL custom user password	""
mysql.auth.existingSecret	Existing secret with MySQL credentials	""
mysql.primary.persistence.enabled	Enable persistence on MySQL using PVC(s)	true
mysql.primary.persistence.storageClass	Persistent Volume storage class	""
mysql.primary.persistence.accessModes	Persistent Volume access modes	[]
mysql.primary.persistence.size	Persistent Volume size	8Gi
mysql.primary.resourcesPreset	Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if primary.resources is set (primary.resources is recommended for production).	small
mysql.primary.resources	Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads)	{}
externalDatabase.host	External Database server host	localhost
externalDatabase.port	External Database server port	3306
externalDatabase.user	External Database username	bn_ghost
externalDatabase.password	External Database user password	""
externalDatabase.database	External Database database name	bitnami_ghost
externalDatabase.existingSecret	The name of an existing secret with database credentials	""
externalDatabase.ssl	External Database ssl	false
externalDatabase.sslCaFile	External Database ssl CA filepath	""

NetworkPolicy parameters

Name	Description	Value
networkPolicy.enabled	Specifies whether a NetworkPolicy should be created	true
networkPolicy.allowExternal	Don't require server label for connections	true
networkPolicy.allowExternalEgress	Allow the pod to access any range of port and all destinations.	true
networkPolicy.extraIngress	Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy	[]
networkPolicy.extraEgress	Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy	[]
networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels	Labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces	{}
networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels	Pod labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces	{}
serviceAccount.create	Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created	true
serviceAccount.name	Name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template.	""
serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken	Automount service account token for the server service account	false
serviceAccount.annotations	Annotations for service account. Evaluated as a template. Only used if create is true.	{}

The above parameters map to the env variables defined in bitnami/ghost. For more information please refer to the bitnami/ghost image documentation.

Note

:

For the Ghost application function correctly, you should specify the ghostHost parameter to specify the FQDN (recommended) or the public IP address of the Ghost service.

Optionally, you can specify the ghostLoadBalancerIP parameter to assign a reserved IP address to the Ghost service of the chart. However please note that this feature is only available on a few cloud providers (f.e. GKE).

To reserve a public IP address on GKE:

$ gcloud compute addresses create ghost-public-ip

The reserved IP address can be assigned to the Ghost service by specifying it as the value of the service.loadBalancerIP parameter while installing the chart.

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

helm install my-release \
  --set ghostUsername=admin,ghostPassword=password,mysql.auth.rootPassword=secretpassword \
    oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/ghost

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

The above command sets the Ghost administrator account username and password to admin and password respectively. Additionally, it sets the MySQL root user password to secretpassword.

NOTE: Once this chart is deployed, it is not possible to change the application's access credentials, such as usernames or passwords, using Helm. To change these application credentials after deployment, delete any persistent volumes (PVs) used by the chart and re-deploy it, or use the application's built-in administrative tools if available.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the above parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

helm install my-release -f values.yaml oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/ghost

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts. Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Troubleshooting

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami's Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading

To 24.0.0

This major updates the MySQL subchart to its newest major, 14.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to MySQL upgrade notes.

To 23.0.0

This major updates the MySQL subchart to its newest major, 13.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to MySQL upgrade notes.

To 22.1.0

This version introduces image verification for security purposes. To disable it, set global.security.allowInsecureImages to true. More details at GitHub issue.

To 22.0.0

This major bump updates the MySQL subchart to version 12.0.0. This subchart updates the StatefulSet objects serviceName to use a headless service, as the current non-headless service attached to it was not providing DNS entries. This will cause an upgrade issue because it changes "immutable fields". To workaround it, delete the StatefulSet objects as follows (replace the RELEASE_NAME placeholder):

kubectl delete sts RELEASE_NAME-mysql --cascade=false

Then execute helm upgrade as usual.

To 21.0.0

This major updates the MySQL subchart to its newest major, 11.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to MySQL upgrade notes.

To 20.0.0

This major bump changes the following security defaults:

• runAsGroup is changed from 0 to 1001
• readOnlyRootFilesystem is set to true
• resourcesPreset is changed from none to the minimum size working in our test suites (NOTE: resourcesPreset is not meant for production usage, but resources adapted to your use case).
• global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext is changed from disabled to auto.
• The networkPolicy section has been normalized amongst all Bitnami charts. Compared to the previous approach, the values section has been simplified (check the Parameters section) and now it set to enabled=true by default. Egress traffic is allowed by default and ingress traffic is allowed by all pods but only to the ports set in containerPorts and extraContainerPorts.

This could potentially break any customization or init scripts used in your deployment. If this is the case, change the default values to the previous ones.

To 19.0.0

This major release changes database management system from MariaDB to MySQL. Since a new DB will be used, you need to create a back up beforehand and restore it in order to keep your data. See the official migration docs.

To 17.0.0

This major release bumps the MariaDB version to 10.6. Follow the upstream instructions for upgrading from MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6. No major issues are expected during the upgrade.

To 16.0.0

This major release updates the MariaDB subchart to its newest major, 10.0.0. Check MariaDB Upgrading Notes for more information.

To 15.0.0

This major release renames several values in this chart and adds missing features, in order to be inline with the rest of assets in the Bitnami charts repository.

Affected values:

• service.port was deprecated, we recommend using service.ports.http instead.
• service.httpsPort was deprecated, we recommend using service.ports.https instead.

To 14.0.0

Due to recent changes in the container image (see Notable changes), the major version of the chart has been bumped preemptively.

Compatibility is not guaranteed due to the amount of involved changes, however no breaking changes are expected.

To 12.0.0

This version standardizes the way of defining Ingress rules. When configuring a single hostname for the Ingress rule, set the ingress.hostname value. When defining more than one, set the ingress.extraHosts array. Apart from this case, no issues are expected to appear when upgrading.

To 11.0.0

In this major there were two main changes introduced:

1. Adaptation to Helm v2 EOL
2. Updated MariaDB dependency version

Please read the update notes carefully.

1. Adaptation to Helm v2 EOL

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

What changes were introduced in this major version?

• Previous versions of this Helm Chart use apiVersion: v1 (installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated to apiVersion: v2 (installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about the apiVersion field.
• Move dependency information from the requirements.yaml to the Chart.yaml
• After running helm dependency update, a Chart.lock file is generated containing the same structure used in the previous requirements.lock
• The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Charts

Considerations when upgrading to this version

• If you want to upgrade to this version from a previous one installed with Helm v3, you shouldn't face any issues
• If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn't support Helm v2 anymore
• If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3

Useful links

• https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/application-catalog/tanzu-application-catalog/services/tac-doc/apps-tutorials-resolve-helm2-helm3-post-migration-issues-index.html
• https://helm.sh/docs/topics/v2_v3_migration/
• https://helm.sh/blog/migrate-from-helm-v2-to-helm-v3/

2. Updated MariaDB dependency version**

In this major the MariaDB dependency version was also bumped to a new major version that introduces several incompatilibites. Therefore, backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless an external database is used. Check MariaDB Upgrading Notes for more information.

To upgrade to 11.0.0, it should be done reusing the PVCs used to hold both the MariaDB and Ghost data on your previous release. To do so, follow the instructions below (the following example assumes that the release name is ghost):

NOTE: Please, create a backup of your database before running any of those actions. The steps below would be only valid if your application (e.g. any plugins or custom code) is compatible with MariaDB 10.5.x

Obtain the credentials and the name of the PVC used to hold the MariaDB data on your current release:

export GHOST_HOST=$(kubectl get svc --namespace default ghost --template "{{ range (index .status.loadBalancer.ingress 0) }}{{ . }}{{ end }}")
export GHOST_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace default ghost -o jsonpath="{.data.ghost-password}" | base64 -d)
export MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace default ghost-mariadb -o jsonpath="{.data.mariadb-root-password}" | base64 -d)
export MARIADB_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace default ghost-mariadb -o jsonpath="{.data.mariadb-password}" | base64 -d)
export MARIADB_PVC=$(kubectl get pvc -l app=mariadb,component=master,release=ghost -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")

Delete the Ghost deployment and delete the MariaDB statefulset. Notice the option --cascade=false in the latter.

kubectl delete deployments.apps ghost

kubectl delete statefulsets.apps ghost-mariadb --cascade=false

Upgrade you release to 11.0.0 reusing the existing PVC, and enabling back MariaDB:

helm upgrade ghost oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/ghost --set mariadb.primary.persistence.existingClaim=$MARIADB_PVC --set mariadb.auth.rootPassword=$MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD --set mariadb.auth.password=$MARIADB_PASSWORD --set ghostPassword=$GHOST_PASSWORD --set ghostHost=$GHOST_HOST

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

You will need to kill the existing MariaDB pod now as the new statefulset is going to create a new one:

kubectl delete pod ghost-mariadb-0

You should see the lines below in MariaDB container logs:

$ kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=ghost,app.kubernetes.io/name=mariadb,app.kubernetes.io/component=primary -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
...
mariadb 12:13:24.98 INFO  ==> Using persisted data
mariadb 12:13:25.01 INFO  ==> Running mysql_upgrade
...

To 10.0.0

This version introduces bitnami/common, a library chart as a dependency. More documentation about this new utility could be found here. Please, make sure that you have updated the chart dependencies before executing any upgrade.

Also, allowEmptyPassword has changed its value type from string to boolean, if you were using it please make sure that you are passing the proper value.

# before
--set allowEmptyPassword="no"
# after
--set allowEmptyPassword=false

To 9.0.0

Helm performs a lookup for the object based on its group (apps), version (v1), and kind (Deployment). Also known as its GroupVersionKind, or GVK. Changing the GVK is considered a compatibility breaker from Kubernetes' point of view, so you cannot "upgrade" those objects to the new GVK in-place. Earlier versions of Helm 3 did not perform the lookup correctly which has since been fixed to match the spec.

In https://github.com/helm/charts/pulls/17297 the apiVersion of the deployment resources was updated to apps/v1 in tune with the api's deprecated, resulting in compatibility breakage.

This major version signifies this change.

To 5.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 5.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is ghost:

kubectl patch deployment ghost-ghost --type=json -p='[{"op": "remove", "path": "/spec/selector/matchLabels/chart"}]'
kubectl delete statefulset ghost-mariadb --cascade=false

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