Download File From Digitalocean Droplet __FULL__
Veronica Donkin
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This section also lists the default VPC network for the Droplet. The VPC network enables an additional networking interface that can only be accessed by other Droplets within the same datacenter. This keeps traffic between Droplets and other applicable resources from being routed outside the datacenter over the public internet.
Some Marketplace images, like WordPress, let you add a managed database cluster during creation. Connection credentials for the database cluster are available in the control panel, in a file on the Droplet (/root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials, and MongoDB certificates at /root/dbaas_ca_cert.crt), and are exported as environment variables on the Droplet from /etc/environment.
Volumes are independent resources that can be moved from one Droplet to another within the same datacenter. Attached volumes function like locally connected storage drives, meaning you can manage your storage with familiar tools and techniques.
Check the boxes next to the existing keys you want to add to the Droplet, or check Select all to add every key on your account. You can also click New SSH Key to upload a new key to your account from the create page.
User data (free) is arbitrary data that you specify which is written to the user-data field of the DigitalOcean metadata service. Droplets running distributions with cloud-init can consume and execute the data from this field, which are generally cloud-config files used for initially configuring a server on first boot.
You can also click Create via command line to get a command that you can copy and paste onto the command line to create Droplets with the configuration you selected. You can choose from two libraries: cURL and doctl, the offiical DigitalOcean command line utility.
Once the Droplet is powered off, set it to boot it from the recovery ISO. In the control panel, click Recovery on the left, then click the Boot from Recovery ISO box:
After it completes, mount the filesystem into your environment using option 1 to access your files. You need to access your files this way because the Linux environment is running from the ISO image, not from the Droplet. Your disk image is detected and mounted under /mnt in the recovery environment. Then use option 6 to enter the interactive shell and look for recovered files in the /mnt/lost+found directory.
Once your Droplet is prepared, you can offload your files onto a remote machine (like another Droplet or another physical machine). You can use SFTP from the command line or with an SFTP client like FileZilla. Use the temporary password in the recovery menu when you set up the connection.
If you were recovering from file system corruption or other problems and the recovery went well, meaning the Droplet itself is salvageable, you can set the Droplet to boot normally. To boot normally, power off from the command line again:
Then, back in the control panel, click Recovery and choose the radio button for Boot from Hard Drive. When you power the Droplet back on, it attempts to boot from its own disk.
You can also use snapshots to restore a Droplet to the point in time when the snapshot was taken. This can be useful for restoring files that were accidentally deleted or to revert to a known-good Droplet to recover from accidental configuration changes.
To create a Droplet from a snapshot, click the Create menu and select Droplets. On the Droplet creation page, in the Choose an image section, click Snapshots, and then click the snapshot you want to use.
To replace all the data on an existing Droplet with the image of one of its snapshots, click Images from the top menu of the DigitalOcean Control Panel. This takes you to a list of all the snapshots available in your account.
Find the snapshot you want to restore the Droplet from and open its More menu, then select Restore Droplet. A Restore Droplet window confirms that the existing Droplet will be replaced with the older snapshot image.
A DigitalOcean Snapshot is an on-demand full disk image of a Droplet. When you snapshot a Droplet, the image is saved to your account and remains there until you delete it. You can use snapshots to restore an existing Droplet or create a new Droplet from that point in time.
When you enable backups on a Droplet, we automatically create a full disk image of the Droplet every week. Like snapshots, backup images are saved to your account, and you can use backups to restore an existing Droplet or create new Droplets from that point in time.
The Droplet Console has a native-like terminal experience, so you can run commands on your Droplet from a familiar command-line interface. It also provides one-click SSH access to your Droplet without the need for a password or manual SSH key configuration.
Almost immediately, I was impressed. In just a short while, I was up and running these jobs with little issue. But there was one challenge I had yet to work out: setting up some sort of deployment process to get the code from my Git repository to my droplet. I was spoiled with Heroku. They make that part of the job incredibly hassle-free. But thankfully, when I made the move to DO, my needs were relatively straightforward:
After installing Node (which also installs npm by default), you will manually change npm's default directory. The following steps are based on how to resolve access permissions from the official Node documentation:
The ecosystem.config.js manages the database connection variables that Strapi needs to connect to your database. ecosystem.config.js is also used by pm2 to restart your project whenever any changes are made to files within the Strapi file system itself, such as when an update arrives from GitHub. You can read more about the ecosystem.config.js file in the official pm2 documentation.
The script above declares a variable called PM2_CMD which is used after pulling from GitHub to update your project. The script first changes to the home directory and then runs the variable PM2_CMD as pm2 restart strapi.
There will be a number of links at the end of this tutorial that contain a ton of useful information that I referred to continuously throughout the process of getting a forum up and running. I have taken a lot of my information from these links, but have also added my own observations to them. You may find some of these links useful - I encourage you to read them to get a full understanding.
Run through the rest of the options. I am in the UK, so for Datacenter Region I selected London. I also selected Monitoring from the Additional Options section. Ensure you change the hostname to a more memorable one (I am super OCD about that kind of thing!) - I used forum.britishfishing.co.uk as it then matches what I intend to use it for. Additionally, I chose to enable backups.
In your DNS provider where the domain you want to use is registered, create an A-Record that points to the IP of the Droplet. You can find this IP in the email that DigitalOcean will have sent you upon Droplet creation, or from the Droplet overview in DigitalOcean.
For example, there is a great tutorial on DigitalOcean websiteon how to setup OpenVPN server.This tutorial consists of 12 steps.So many steps to spin-off some piece of software which will forward your traffic from that node to the world.
How to keep your Digital Ocean Droplets updated automatically
So one of the questions I had regarding the Digital Ocean droplets is: how to make sure that I keep up with the ubuntu security updates, to avoid security issues?
I noticed that on my droplet (created from within Wappler) the unattended-upgrades package was already installed. So you can skip step 1 and go and configure with (make sure you have selected your DO droplet target and open SSH terminal in Wappler):
I use DigitalOcean and I want to use only one droplet, so I'd always work only with one ip (per LTS distro release). The benefit is not having the replace IP address in various software like Putty, WinSCP, PHPmyadmin, DigitalOcean DNS management tool (DNSMT), and maybe some other software, especially when training with different droplets or when I want to fully reinstall from whatever reason.
Of course, one could use a long one-liner curl DigitalOcean API call or use a DigitalOcean snapshot ("droplet state save", which costs money) right after creating the droplet, but I'm looking for a global way, not dependent on DigitalOcean, which is also minimal in the sense of Bash-only.
Create a DigitalOcean account and spin up two Ubuntu droplets (the green "create" button in the upper-right). A bottom-tier machine runs $5/mo, so even if you play with these for the rest of the day it'll only run ya 33. ?
The authors of the tutorial suggest running the following command from the controller node, just to see that you can run commands against the host(s) you setup - although the ping command above already did that.
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