I want to be able to automatically create new droplets using custom configurations without the need to configure the server myself, for example: I want a server with: Nginx installed with some default config files. Postgresql installed with the initial installation by default. 1gb of swap memory Etc… I’m not really sure if there is some software that already do this for me, I know I can write some scripts to do everything for me, but. maybe there is something that already do that.

Hi! There are a few different ways to do that—I’ll list the most common ones. You can: 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. 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 An Introduction to Configuration Management Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks Configuration Management 101: Writing Puppet Manifests Configuration Management 101: Writing Chef Recipes 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.

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Creation and configuration of new droplets

Posted on August 7, 2016
Deployment DigitalOcean
Asked by luis jury

I want to be able to automatically create new droplets using custom configurations without the need to configure the server myself, for example:

I want a server with:

Nginx installed with some default config files.
Postgresql installed with the initial installation by default.
1gb of swap memory
Etc…

I’m not really sure if there is some software that already do this for me, I know I can write some scripts to do everything for me, but. maybe there is something that already do that.

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Kamal Nasser

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• August 8, 2016

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Hi!

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

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.
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

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.

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