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Tutorial
Ubuntu's next Long Term Support release, version 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), is due to be released on April 21, 2016. This guide explains the upgrade process for systems including (but not limited to) DigitalOcean Droplets ...
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By
Brennen Bearnes
System Tools
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
DNS is the naming system that is used to bind a domain name to a web server. In this guide, we will change the nameservers for a domain that we have registered and point it to a DigitalOcean Droplet.
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By
Josh Barnett, Kathleen Juell
Getting Started
DNS
DigitalOcean
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ARCHIVED: We have created a one-click Wordpress installation with permalinks enabled that uses Apache/MySQL/PHP on Ubuntu 16.04 x64.
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By
WordPress
DigitalOcean
One-Click Install Apps
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04
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Book
There are numerous tools, networking configurations, and processes that can be used to deploy, monitor, and run a Kubernetes cluster. The book examines each topic in turn so that anyone who follows along will be able ...
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By
Kathleen Juell, Hanif Jetha, Jamon Camisso
Kubernetes
Books
DigitalOcean
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The free How To Code in Python eBook can be used as an Open Educational Resource and an alternative to a textbook in the classroom, as well as be made available for the wider public through libraries.
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri
Python
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
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Book
A free, open, eBook to learn more about machine learning in Python through completing programming projects. Project-based learning offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by digging into complex, real-world...
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri, Brian Boucheron
Python
Machine Learning
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
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Tutorial series
Python is an extremely readable and versatile programming language. Written in a relatively straightforward style with immediate feedback on errors, Python offers simplicity and versatility, in terms of extensibility ...
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By
Lisa Tagliaferri
Python
Development
DigitalOcean
Books
Conceptual
Ubuntu 18.04
Programming Project
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Tutorial
One way to send and receive email through your own custom domain is to use a third-party mail service, such as the mail service included with Google Apps (Gmail) or Zoho. The main benefit of using a third-party mail s...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Email
DigitalOcean
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Tutorial
One way to send and receive email through your own custom domain is to use a third-party mail service, such as Zoho or Google Apps. The main benefit of using a third-party mail service, as opposed to managing your own...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Email
DigitalOcean
DNS
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Tutorial
Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Networking
DigitalOcean
High Availability
Load Balancing
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
The DigitalOcean metadata service includes a field called "user-data", which can be used to specify a script that will be run as your server is brought online. The CloudInit program, which runs these scripts, can pro...
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By
Justin Ellingwood
API
DigitalOcean
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Tutorial series
DNS, or the domain name system, is an essential component of modern internet communication. It allows us to reference computers by names instead of IP addresses. In this series, we will cover the basic ideas behind ...
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By
Justin Ellingwood, Melissa Anderson and Mitchell Anicas
DNS
Conceptual
Linux Basics
FAQ
Networking
DigitalOcean
Product Documentation
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
DigitalOcean's web based control panel provides a convenient, point-and-click interface for managing Droplets. There are many times, however, when a command-line tool may be a preferable alternative. doctl, the offic...
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By
Marko Mudrinić
DigitalOcean
API
Configuration Management
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If you are planning on using CoreOS in your infrastructure, the first thing you will want to set up is a CoreOS cluster. In order for CoreOS machines to form a cluster, their etcd2 instances must be connected. In this...
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By
Mitchell Anicas
Scaling
Clustering
API
DigitalOcean
CoreOS
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Tutorial series
CoreOS is a powerful Linux distribution built to make large, scalable deployments on varied infrastructure simple to manage. Based on a build of Chrome OS, CoreOS maintains a lightweight host system and uses Docker co...
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By
Justin Ellingwood, Mitchell Anicas and Brennen Bearnes
Clustering
Docker
Scaling
System Tools
Conceptual
CoreOS
API
DigitalOcean
Networking
Load Balancing
Nginx
Security
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Tutorial
A cloud-config file is a special script that is used to define configuration details for your server as it is being brought online for the first time. These are often used for completing common tasks that a user woul...
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By
Justin Ellingwood
Deployment
API
DigitalOcean
Initial Server Setup
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Tutorial series
When creating a new Ubuntu 14.04 server, there are some basic steps that you should take to ensure that your server is secure and configured properly. This tutorial series covers connecting to your server and general ...
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By
Melissa Anderson and Justin Ellingwood
Getting Started
Linux Basics
DigitalOcean
Product Documentation
Initial Server Setup
Security
Ubuntu
System Tools
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Tutorial
Create and deploy a scalable WordPress instance consisting of a MySQL database server, a GlusterFS distributed filesystem, Nginx web servers and an Nginx load balancer. By using user-data and droplet meta-data we wil...
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By
Ryan Quinn
WordPress
LEMP
DigitalOcean
Scaling
Load Balancing
MySQL
Nginx
Ubuntu
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Tutorial
Velero is a convenient backup tool for Kubernetes clusters that compresses and backs up Kubernetes objects to object storage. It also takes snapshots of your cluster’s Persistent Volumes using your cloud provider’s bl...
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By
Hanif Jetha, Jamon Camisso
Backups
Kubernetes
Solutions
Object Storage
DigitalOcean
Block Storage
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ARCHIVED: DigitalOcean's Ruby on Rails One-click application provides a convenient way to get your Rails application running on an Ubuntu server. With Nginx, Unicorn, and Postgres all pre-installed, the One-click is a...
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By
Melissa Anderson
Ruby on Rails
One-Click Install Apps
DigitalOcean
Ubuntu