Broke Ghost but it was really a forgotten password

The family portal looked dead, replacement CMS options started getting judged, and then the whole “incident” turned out to be a forgotten login.

Original work date

early March

The problem

The Family Portal was running on Ghost and appeared broken. Instead of starting with boring triage, the problem immediately felt bigger than it was. WordPress got dragged back into the conversation. Concrete CMS got judged. The whole platform was briefly on trial.

The environment

• App: Ghost
• Host:
• Cluster / namespace:
• Version:
• Relevant config:

What failed

Then the boring answer showed up. Ghost was not destroyed. The container was fine. The login credentials were the problem.

The fix

Once the password was reset inside the container, the “outage” was basically over

Final state

What I learned

Before replacing the whole platform, make sure the platform is actually broken.

Useful commands / config

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