Creation and configuration of new droplets

Hi!

There are a few different ways to do that—I’ll list the most common ones. You can:

1. spin up a new Droplet, install, for example, Nginx on it, and apply the default config files that you prefer, and take a snapshot of it. Then, whenever you want to spin up a new web server Droplet, you can just choose the said snapshot and quickly get up and running.
2. use a configuration management software to automate deploying and configuring new servers. Take a look at the following tutorial series:

• Getting Started with Configuration Management
  1. An Introduction to Configuration Management
  2. Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks
  3. Configuration Management 101: Writing Puppet Manifests
  4. Configuration Management 101: Writing Chef Recipes

1. use User Data to run a script of your own when the Droplet first boots that installs and sets everything up the way you like it.