Digital Ocean Cloud : Droplets & Interface
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We are going to do a quick walk over of the Digital Ocean Interface and we will look at all the options it has to offer with respect to working with DigitalOcean cloud.
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Setting up Your First DigitalOcean Server
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DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider. It offers a wide range of cloud servers, a control panel application, and a marketplace for additional services.
Setting up your first DigitalOcean server is not hard. You will need to create a Droplet on the DigitalOcean website and access it remotely using ssh. As with any server, there are many things that you can do to customize your setup.
Digital Ocean Interface
The first thing you can do is create a new project. A project is just a logical name. You can consider it as a resource group, or you can just consider it as a logical abstraction of infrastructure services.
The First offering is called apps, and this is a very recent offering. This is a platform as a service and it effectively asks you to code in the language you are familiar with.
The next thing, which is a pretty widely used option is droplets. Droplets are like virtual machines. You can create droplets and we'll look at the options to create infrastructure in the next. We'll go over droplets, Kubernetes databases in the next video. You can click on, create the droplet, and it will take you to a simple set of questions.
Very standard you can create you can choose the type of operating system, and then you can select the pricing options. Choose the optimization type, whether you want a dedicated CPU optimized. So that's, effectively all, you need to do a few more options and you can just create a droplet with a simple interface, then you can move forward.
And then you have capabilities like Kubernetes, which, again, as we talked in, the last video master plane is free. Control plane pricing is included in the plan, starting brands, and you get pre-configured networking. You get several automated performance metrics and load balances and persistent storage is, are integrated with the cluster itself.
Volumes are discs that you can use to associate or associate with any droplet, you can effectively create a block volume and you can use it to move around your data. For instance, if you're working on a project where you have a lot of data and you want to move it around with different forms of computer, have it as a backup.
You can use this, then we have databases and there are all sorts of database options available with DigitalOcean. For instance, there's MongoDB and MySQL, which are supported. You only need to create a database cluster and the process is very similar to the creation of droplets.
It will ask you a couple of options and you should be able to create a database cluster.
Moving on to Spaces. Spaces are object storage. These are similar to S3 buckets. You can use it to manage any sort of object. They can be files, images, any kind of data, which probably does not having fitment into the existing RDBMS or NoSQL solution.
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