Deploy and Host Ghost CMS on AWS Using Fargate + Aurora Serverless + Application Load Balancer

Описание: In this build session, I walked through how to deploy Ghost CMS on AWS using Amazon ECS (Fargate) and explained the architecture end-to-end using the diagram attached.

The focus was simple: take Ghost CMS from a container image to a working AWS deployment that you can access through a load balancer, backed by a managed database.

🧱 What We’re Building

We set up a clean request flow:

➜ Users send traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB)
➜ The ALB routes traffic to an ECS Service running on Fargate
➜ The service runs Ghost as Fargate Tasks
➜ Aurora Serverless is used as the database backend
➜ The Task Definition defines the container image and runtime config

For the session, we kept the setup lightweight and used DockerHub as the image source.

🔍 What We Covered in the Session

✅ ECS + Fargate basics (what runs where, and why)
✅ Service vs Task (what stays running vs what gets replaced)
✅ Task Definition (where image + ports + env vars live)
✅ ALB routing into ECS (how traffic reaches your containers)
✅ Connecting Ghost to Aurora Serverless
✅ A practical Ghost CMS example you can reuse for your own apps

🧩 Optional Extensions (if you want to keep going)

If you want to extend what we built, here are the easy next steps:

➜ Use ECR instead of DockerHub
➜ Add ACM for HTTPS
➜ Put CloudFront in front of the Load Balancer
➜ Add WAF to filter and rate-limit traffic

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