So far some progress, I tried using AWS lambda and firebase functions for that did not work at all.
I have identified a few problems so far.
- ghost has option to implement custom storage adapter, there is a famous s3 adapter I am currently using. This make storage at least serverless.
- next is database. Ghost uses knex library as database adapter which only sports SQL databases. I am currently looking for hooking nosql functionality into knex and change default adapter to either firebase datastore or dynamidb.
- finally there’s cold start problem, even if I am able to run ghost on aws lambda, it will take some time to initialize every time there is a request which is an overhead. I am looking into speed up loading using lazy stuff.
Recently Google announced cloud run which allows us to directly run serverless container. The only thing then missing is database. If I succeed mounting a volume for sqlite storage on cloud run container, it can completely go serverless.
Thanks