François Bossière, Ph.D
Jan 4, 2026
How to build a fully stateless, production-grade publishing platform using serverless containers and infrastructure as code
Running a modern publication should not require maintaining virtual machines, patching operating systems, or babysitting web servers.
Yet most Ghost deployments still rely on VPS-based setups with Nginx, persistent disks, manual backups, and fragile scaling strategies. That operational overhead is increasingly out of step with how engineering teams expect infrastructure to behave in 2026.
At Polynom, we recently took a different approach.
We deployed Ghost as a fully stateless, serverless application on Scaleway Serverless Containers, backed by private managed MySQL, S3-compatible object storage, and infrastructure defined entirely in Terraform. The result is a production-grade publishing platform that is scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and largely self-healing—without running a single long-lived server.
In a detailed technical article published on Synthetic Horizons, François Bossière walks through the complete architecture and implementation, including:
How to make Ghost truly stateless using S3-compatible storage
How to run Ghost on serverless containers without cold starts
How to secure databases with private networking (no public IPs)
How to manage the entire stack with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
How to achieve predictable costs (~€47/month) with production-level reliability
This is not a proof of concept. It is a deployment pattern designed for real-world teams who want low operational burden without sacrificing control or security.
If you are building a content platform, documentation hub, or editorial layer as part of a broader data or AI product, this architecture illustrates the kind of rigor Polynom applies to all production systems—whether the workload is CMS, analytics, or AI inference.
And if you are interested in applying similar serverless and infrastructure-as-code principles to your own platforms, Polynom supports organizations in designing and deploying secure, scalable systems across data, AI, and cloud-native architectures.
👉 Read the full guide on Synthetic Horizons: Deploy Ghost on Scaleway Serverless Containers: A Production-Grade, Stateless Deployment Guide