How to add a theme to Dockerfile

Themes
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Hi everyone,

I am following this toturial to create a development environment for casper and docker Ghost & Docker : Mon environnement de développement !

I have two repository:

  • the ghost blog
  • the theme

I usually clone both in different directories and do a symlink so it’s available in my work space, this work great.

I am able to edit the forked casper theme and have the change by pressing F5.

I now want within the CI to create a docker image using a custom Dockerfile where I’ll add the theme in it.

Perhaps the idea is bad, how would you recommend to do that?

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I have a Similar issue, I have a theme that is being pushed into my docker container, and it appears on the list so you can click and activate it, I would like to skip that step.

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To set the active theme modify theme.active_theme in core/server/data/schema/default-settings.json
There’s all sorts of goodies to set there so I made a modified version and added a COPY statement to my Dockerfile that overwrites the existing one.

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This is the complete solution for those wondering:

FROM ghost:alpine

ARG NAME

# Copy theme files
COPY dist/$NAME.zip /var/lib/ghost/content.orig/themes/$NAME.zip
RUN cd /var/lib/ghost/content.orig/themes && \
    unzip $NAME.zip -d $NAME && rm -rf $NAME.zip && \
    # Set theme to active
    (sed -i "s/casper/$NAME/" /var/lib/ghost/versions/$GHOST_VERSION/core/server/data/schema/default-settings.json || sed -i "s/casper/$NAME/" /var/lib/ghost/versions/$GHOST_VERSION/core/server/data/schema/default-settings/default-settings.json) && \ 
    # Install routes.yaml
    mv ./$NAME/routes.yaml ../settings/routes.yaml

That last line is a little extra, my theme also defines custom routing.

If you see two sed commands, it’s because some versions have the default-settings.json in a different location; both are included as a failsafe.

A very nice side-effect of this is that if you’re running Ghost on Docker/K8s and you have the S3 adapter installed, you don’t need a persistent volume anymore