How to custom storage adapters to make your self-hosted Ghost instance filesystem completely external?

I set up my self-hosted Ghost on a free Google Compute Engine(a E2 micro GCP VM instance) several years ago.

The free disk after running a Ghost on the vm is only about 6G left, while

Ghost uses local file storage by default

In order to save the free space, I would like to seek a way to save images into external storage.

The above code section is based on this Ghost source commit.

After dive deep into Ghost open source, you can change the above /images/upload implementation and save the file to any external storages such as AWS s3.

Or you can follow this official config guide: https://ghost.org/docs/config/#creating-a-custom-storage-adapter

You can refer to this widely tested AWS s3 adapter.


My custom idea: try to use Oracle free 40G database to save images

I always like free storage. Oracle JSON database can give you 2 instances, 20G each.
In a word, Oracle give you 40G free database storage.
I am thinking custom the upload endpoint's implementation and save the image files into Oracle JSON database.

POST http://localhost:2368/ghost/api/admin/images/upload/


The response will be like below:
{"images":[{"url":"http://localhost:2368/api/admin/images/dbx/idx","ref":null}]}
dbx the Oracle json database instance(since Oracle gives 2 free instances).
idx the json document unique id saved into Oracle json database.

We need to provide a new endpoint to parse the above response url.
Since we save it in JSON format, while browser expects an image source url to return an image binary.

This is just a proposal, I will share the implementation once done.


I implemented the custom storage adapter and let it open source. See this post to find how I build up the storage adapter.






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