{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/bryan_liles/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":"<iframe width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/NvHQSV7jnKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>"}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. This is the latest release of MongoDB and comes packed with numerous enhancements like hedged reads, rust, and swift drivers. Since we have developed Managed MongoDB in partnership with MongoDB Inc, you will always get access to new releases as they become available. With Managed MongoDB, the updates happen automatically. Just select a date and time for the updates and we take care of the rest. This makes it easy to stay up to date with MongoDB releases without disrupting your business.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":56,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/new","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"High availability with automated failover: If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app, leading to bad customer experiences. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily minimize the downtime for your database and make it highly available with standby nodes. Standby nodes add redundancy, so if for example the primary node fails, the standby node is immediately promoted to primary and begins serving requests while we provision a replacement standby node in the background.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":42,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scale up easily to handle traffic spikes: As your app gains traction and the usage grows, it’s important to have a database that can keep up with the increased demand. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily scale up the size of database nodes when needed.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Secure by default: Since data is critical, it also needs to be secure. We encrypt data at rest with LUKS and in transit with SSL. When you create a new cluster, it’s placed in a VPC network by default that provides a more secure connection between resources. You can also restrict access to your nodes to prevent brute-force password and denial-of-service attacks.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":178,"end":189,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The need for Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean’s mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers, startups, and SMBs can spend more time building software that changes the world. While databases are a critical component to any application, building, maintaining, and scaling them can be complex and time consuming. For developers that are building apps for their business, database administration is often not a core focus area. But it’s quite common to find developers that write the code and then also roll up their sleeves to maintain databases. Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. In addition to this, Managed MongoDB also integrates with the Node.js 1-Click App from DigitalOcean Marketplace making it a lot easier to build Node.js apps.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Simple, predictable pricing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just like all DigitalOcean products, Managed MongoDB provides simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control costs and prevent any surprise bills. You can spin up a database cluster for just $15/month, or a highly available three-node replica set for $45/month. Click here for more information.","spans":[{"start":270,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Regional availability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB is currently available in the following regions:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"NYC3 (New York, USA)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"FRA1 (Frankfurt, Germany)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"AMS3 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be making Managed Mongo available in other regions soon. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. Learn how you can participate, submit an app and get a t-shirt.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/mongodb-hackathon"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you will give Managed MongoDB a try. Here are some sample datasets and sample apps that you can use to kick the tires. Check out the docs and let us know what you think!","spans":[{"start":22,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases/new?engine=mongodb"}},{"start":59,"end":90,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/do-community/mongodb-resources","target":"_blank"}},{"start":141,"end":145,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Managed MongoDB in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":120,"end":142,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Director of Product Management","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"André Bearfield","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":553,"height":547},"alt":"André Bearfield","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fdc7c85186f0a850b04083e1d4306bd1c19772e8_andre-bearfield.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"andre-bearfield"}},"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-digitalocean-managed-mongodb"}},"featured_blog_2":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":"Droplet Console","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/710499ae-78cc-4179-afc1-15793637b200_DODX3727-790x400-logo-2.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-08-10","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The famous author Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.\" This is something we truly believe at DigitalOcean, and we always strive to enhance our products based on customer feedback.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this goal in mind, we are excited to introduce a new Droplet Console that will make it much easier to connect to your Droplets securely. 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At a high level, SSH works by creating cryptographic key pairs consisting of a public and private key, which are computer generated and stored separately to ensure their security. ","spans":[{"start":80,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cybernews.com/best-password-managers/most-common-passwords/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SSH has become the default encryption protocol for many industries, but it was difficult to use SSH keys with DigitalOcean’s current Recovery (VNC) console, which is why we developed our new Droplet Console. The new Droplet Console is backed by an agent that security supervises the key pair, while also providing one-click SSH access to our users. 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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Writing the code, testing, deployment, monitoring the usage in production, and ensuring that your apps are able to handle the additional demand when customer base and usage grows are all essential and time-consuming tasks.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, being able to test multiple ideas, pivot, and double down on the ideas that actually work is critical in early stages of SaaS development. Once growth comes, it is equally important to scale up without compromising on performance or reliability. 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The last thing SaaS teams want is surprising and indecipherable bills from your cloud provider. Unfortunately, smaller businesses often experience unpredictable costs with cloud providers who are busy serving only the large enterprises.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"DigitalOcean provides a simple, cost effective solution for SaaS builders","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fortunately, at DigitalOcean we have a laser focus on small software development teams, who are trying to build the next generation of applications. Today, DigitalOcean customers are already building SaaS applications which serve all kinds of customers.","spans":[{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/saas/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe SaaS builders should focus on building apps that power their business, and not spend their valuable time on managing infrastructure. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. If you are interested in learning more about product updates, technical deep-dives and best practices for building SaaS products and businesses, please contact us to learn how we can help you get started. ","spans":[{"start":340,"end":357,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Come build with DigitalOcean!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Looking to migrate your SaaS to DigitalOcean? Leverage free infrastructure credits, robust training, and technical support to ensure a worry-free migration.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":156,"type":"strong"},{"start":0,"end":156,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Raman Sharma","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Vice President, Product & Programs Marketing","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Developer Relations","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"developer-relations"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"Raman Sharma","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":512,"height":512},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/497b4b14-d192-493a-8b66-7ae176ba99f3_raman.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"raman-sharma"}},"_meta":{"uid":"how-to-scale-your-saas-product-without-breaking-the-bank"}}}}]}}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":0,"numAuthorPages":1,"currentPage":1,"uid":"bryan_liles","data":[{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Bryan Liles","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"bryan_liles"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/c883d3cf-14fb-4648-8d30-cbd199bcea48_doctl.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing doctl: the Command Line Interface to DigitalOcean","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"heading3","text":"Why a CLI utility?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When DigitalOcean entered the market four years ago, our team spent an extraordinary amount of time designing a web user interface that was easy to use and inviting for developers. Simple and elegant design is something we have always strived for as a company. Over time, as the amount of functionality has increased, the ease of use has remained.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"That goal goes beyond just the web interface; we've sought to build an API that is just as easy to use. When we released version 1 of our API, a few popular tools emerged. Tugboat, which allowed you to manage your DigitalOcean resources from the comfort of your command line, was a particular favorite. Late last year, we deprecated V1 and released DigitalOcean API V2. With API V2 came a plethora of improvements and an enhanced developer's portal which provides information on every API endpoint along with usage examples and guides.","spans":[{"start":172,"end":179,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/pearkes/tugboat"}},{"start":349,"end":368,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-api-v2"}},{"start":430,"end":448,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As developers ourselves, we spend a lot of our time in a terminal. So we have decided to upgrade that experience as well with an official command line interface (CLI) tool entitled `doctl`. `doctl` provides an accessible interface to our API, taking full advantage of improvements introduced in API V2 and support for newer DigitalOcean features like Floating IPs. It allows us to deliver more complex features and workflows as well.","spans":[{"start":351,"end":363,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-floating-ips-on-digitalocean"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Installation and usage","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`doctl` is available as a precompiled binary for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. You can download the release on GitHub.","spans":[{"start":96,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/releases/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Getting started with `doctl` is easy. To retrieve your DigitalOcean access token and save it locally, just run:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`doctl auth login`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can view your account settings with:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"   ```[php]{`doctl account get`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As an example of what `doctl` can do, we can create a Debian 8 Droplet in NYC1 with a public SSH key installed for the root user in one line:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`doctl compute droplet create webserver01 --region nyc1 --image debian-8-x64 --size 4gb --ssh-keys 1234 --wait`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`doctl` can also configure the output. By default, it will be displayed in a table. If you wanted to use the output programmatically, JSON might be a better choice. For instance, you could list all of your Droplets in NYC3 as JSON using:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`doctl compute droplet list --region nyc3 --output json`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To learn about all the features available, check out the full tutorial over on our community site.","spans":[{"start":53,"end":97,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-doctl-the-official-digitalocean-command-line-client"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Simple and powerful","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`doctl` is not only an interface to the DigitalOcean V2 API. It also simplifies more complex workflows. Previously, when using the API to snapshot a Droplet, you'd have to separately retrieve the action ID and continuously query the action endpoint to know the status of the snapshot. Now `doctl` can handle that for you. Using the `--wait` flag, it can snapshot a Droplet and block until the action completes. The same concept applies to other activities which don't complete instantaneously, like Droplet creates.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`doctl` also simplifies activities which do not have an API endpoint. If you create a Droplet and don't assign the IP address in DNS, `doctl` allows you to SSH to your Droplet by name.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`doctl compute ssh <droplet name>`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By default, it assumes you are using the `root` user. If you want to SSH as a specific user, you can do that as well:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`doctl compute ssh <user>@<droplet name>`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Contribute","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Like much of our internal tooling, `doctl` is written in Go. It is completely open source and available on GitHub. We're excited to be able to share this with our community and look forward to collaborating on building a tool we hope you'll love. Check out the contribution guidelines, and dive into the code.","spans":[{"start":94,"end":113,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/"}},{"start":257,"end":284,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What else you would like to see from `doctl`? Let us know in the comments.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-03-28","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-doctl"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Bryan Liles","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"bryan_liles"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":400},"alt":"gophers digging to a center tunnel with the words 'Taming your Go dependancies'","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/283d47e0-afd6-46d1-9b56-3226e7ae915f_gophers.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Taming Your Go Dependencies","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Internally at DigitalOcean, we had an issue brewing in our Go code bases.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Separate projects were developed in separate Git repositories, and in order to minimize the fallout from upgraded dependencies, we mirrored all dependencies locally in individual Git repositories. These projects relied on various versions of packages, and the problem was that there was no deterministic way to distinguish which project required what and when.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As a team, we knew this approach was not optimal, but coming to a consensus on a single way to manage packages was a tough decision. With a little bit of effort, we arrived at a solution which addressed the issue of managing package versions without needing an external management tool. We call our effort cthulhu, which is our Go repository. We also refer to it as a mono repo.","spans":[{"start":306,"end":313,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What's a Mono Repo?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Building a cloud is fast-paced business. We have Go projects that serve APIs, move bits around from server to server, and crunch numbers. Because many of these projects share a common set of components, we determined it would be easier to create a single Git project and import all the existing projects. Here's the high level structure of the project:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        .","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        ├── README.md","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        ├── docode","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        │   └── src","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        └── third_party","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            └── src","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It is a called a mono repo because we only have one repository. Our setup is straightforward. We have a root directory that serves as the base for cthulhu. Underneath this root, we have two additional directories: `docode` for our code, and `third_party` for other people's code.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To develop Go software,set your `GOPATH` to `${CTHULHU}/third_party:${CTHULHU}/docode`. That's it!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The reason that the `third_party` directory is listed first is to ensure that, when packages are fetched using `go get`, they'll be installed in this directory's src/ rather than `docode`.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At this point, you can create a script that can be sourced into a shell, and you can start developing. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Why Is This Good?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"First and foremost, we believe the mono repo is a good idea because using it is frictionless. There are no arcane actions or sacrifices required to configure an individual developer's workstation.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It is also beneficial because at this point of DigitalOcean's Engineering team's evolution, having a single repository for editing software means it is less likely for projects to get lost. Finding code is easy using the mono repo and our team's simple conventions for naming services. We have three types of code: doge, our internal standard library, which contains code that is reused throughout the repository; services, which contains all of our business logic; and tools, which are one off applications and utilities used to manage our Go code, like our custom import rewriter that sorts and separates imports based on our current code guidelines.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        .","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        ├── docode","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        │   └── src","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        │       ├── doge","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        │       ├── services","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        │       └── tools","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        └── third_party","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Because all of our Go is in a single repository, everything uses the same versions of external and internal dependencies. If a package is upgraded, every service which depends on the package receives the new functionality. This helps when dealing with security issues. It's also nice to not have to manage versions explicitly. For our purposes, the canonical version is what's under `third_party/src`. If your work requires an upgrade, you install the new dependency, run the tests, and then send a pull request.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":" It Isn't All Rainbows.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our mono repo is a great solution for us, but it doesn't come without its own set of caveats. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the largest issues is actually an issue with Git. Git prescribes sub-modules for including dependencies in your main repository. When the sub-modules work correctly, there are no problems, but when they don't work, it's a thorny pain for everyone involved. In this case, we chose to sidestep the problem. Instead of dealing with sub-modules or an external management solution, we rename the git config directory (if there is one) for our dependencies. Because the .git directory doesn't exist, Git considers the configuration to be just another set of files. If you want to upgrade the package, just revert the git directory name, and update. This isn't an amazing experience, but it is simple.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, when you share a repository with all the other projects, you inherit all the other project's issues. This means that if one of our individual services has a slow test suite, all services have a slow test suite. In general, testing Go is very fast. When you involve external tests, like database integration, things can slow down. A solution for this is to use the short flag to skip the long tests. An additional solution is to run tests for individual packages. The DigitalOcean Engineering team is still testing and deciding which solutions works best for us.","spans":[{"start":378,"end":388,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://golang.org/pkg/testing/#Short"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Where Do We Go Next?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Currently, our mono repo serves our needs well. It is an easy concept for newer developers to grasp, it doesn't require any external dependencies, and it allows us to co-locate all of our Go code. In a nutshell, it's a great thing for us and we believe it could be a great thing for other teams working with Go as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by  Bryan Liles","spans":[{"start":4,"end":15,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/bryanl"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-02-20","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"taming-your-go-dependencies"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Bryan Liles","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"bryan_liles"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":400},"alt":"gophers digging through the ground illustration with words 'Getting started with Go'","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/83c59839-f74f-4beb-bc84-0a64c4d1bdf0_Go_Blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Get Your Development Team Started With Go","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here at DigitalOcean, Go is quickly becoming one of our favorite programming languages. After a few internal debates,  I've distilled a few thoughts that I'd like to share with teams new to Go (or thinking of taking it on in the future).","spans":[{"start":119,"end":123,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/bryanl"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Using External Code","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Go package landscape is growing every day. People are sharing high quality code that prevents you from having to reinvent the wheel. There are packages that help you with tasks that range from implementing complex algorithms and building networking services to interfacing with other low level systems through the Go C bindings.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Given what's available, it's still a challenge to locate high quality packages to help you build your projects. Through word of mouth and on social channels (e.g. Twitter), I've found special gems like go-tigertonic and testify. Yes, we could have gotten by without them – but they provide benefits we don't feel the need to replicate in-house.","spans":[{"start":202,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/rcrowley/go-tigertonic"}},{"start":220,"end":227,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/stretchr/testify"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are also a few package repositories that exist; however, none of them can be considered a standard. There are announcement services like OSS Go, but they aren't helpful if you are looking for something specific.","spans":[{"start":143,"end":149,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/oss_go"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While this remains an unsolved issue, Go has a secret weapon:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The standard library included with Go is incredibly robust, and unless you are looking for something industry specific or niche, there's a high probability the standard library has a complete solution – or the stepping stone to help you build a solution.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":" Integrating With External Code","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As you start integrating packages written externally, you should take care to *use* the external packages and not *become* the external package. External API interfaces can change, or your team may decide that it needs to replace backend systems with something more robust. Use Go's interfaces to insulate your application from your imported package's types; in doing this, the focus will shift to fulfilling your project's needs rather than building around a core you don't own or have control over.","spans":[{"start":79,"end":82,"type":"em"},{"start":115,"end":121,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As an example, if you're using an external Redis client package, it exports the following:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[redis]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"     package redis","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    type Redis struct {}","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    func (r *Redis) Get(k string) (*RedisKVPair, error) { // omited}`}```    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You could use this code in your application, but you'll run into two problems: The first problem is that you'll need a Redis server if you ever want to test code that uses this package. The second is that you won't be able to easily upgrade or swap the Redis client out if you require additional functionality.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Using Go's powerful interfaces, you start specifying the behavior you desire:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[go]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"     package myapp","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    type KeyPair struct {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      Key string","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      Value []byte","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    type KeyStore interface {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      Get(k string) (*KeyPair, error)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Next, you can create your own type that wraps the external dependency:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[go]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"package myapp","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"       func NewRedisKeyStore() {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      return &RedisKeyStore{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        r: redis.Redis{},","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    func (rks *RedisKeyStore) Get(k string) (*KeyPair, error) {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      rkvp, err := rks.r.Get(k)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      if err != nil {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        return nil, err","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      return &KeyPair{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Key: rkvp.Key,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Value: rkvp.Value,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      }, nil","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}```    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Finally, instead of using the external Redis client explicitly, you can use your wrapper or swap it out in tests:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[go]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    type MockKeyStore struct {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      Dict map[string][]byte","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    func NewMockKeyStore() {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      return &MockKeyStore{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Dict: map[string][]byte{},","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    func (mks *MockKeyStore) Get(k string) (*KeyPair, error) {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      return &KeyPair{Key: k, Value: mks.Dict[k]}, nil","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Managing Dependencies","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After a bit of time, packages you rely on will be updated to fix bugs and add new features. You will quickly learn that `go get` is not a robust solution for maintaining and organizing dependencies. There are two solutions here that you can try: vendoring your dependencies or using an external tool such as [godep](https://github.com/tools/godep).","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The team evaluated vendoring packages but found out quickly that it can be overwhelming. Hence, we are currently leaning towards using godep to manage our dependencies. It provides a method for ensuring that an explicit package is used. Keep in mind it doesn't do so in a declarative manner, so you have to make sure you have the proper version installed prior to saving with godep.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While our engineering team has a strong grasp on managing our dependencies, this too remains an unsolved problem. There still isn't a simple, Go community accepted, declarative solution that allows us to specify external dependencies and the exact versions we want to use.  The community is working on it, however, and a few solutions exist for your team to evaluate at the [Go Wiki Tools Page](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/PackageManagementTools).","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Writing Go","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One thing your team may appreciate about Go is that it doesn't require a resource heavy IDE to be productive. You can use your already-familiar text editor and start writing code. If you do this without any research though, you will be missing out on extensions that can help your productivity. I use Sublime Text for writing Go, and the popular GoSublime plugin provides features like code completion and formatting. Other team members use [Vim Go](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) with large amounts of success.","spans":[{"start":346,"end":355,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Another tool to keep an eye on is Oracle – it provides source analysis that will aid you in navigating your projects. From evaluating expressions to understanding types and callees, Oracle integration in editors will be a huge productivity boost to developers. You can try it out today if you use Emacs or the Atom package.","spans":[{"start":34,"end":40,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.tools/oracle"}},{"start":310,"end":322,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://atom.io/packages/go-oracle"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our team has settled on a single workspace with multiple repositories. As mentioned above, it's still the early days of dependency management, but since we ensure that the team works on all projects in a similar manner, multiple people are able to work with multiple projects simultaneously without any major problems.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Deploying Go","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After writing your software, you'll want to run it in production. Use a tool like fpm to build debs and RPMs and deploy those to your production. You'll get the value of being able to deploy from an internal repository with an explicit version. Since Go compiles down to a single binary, there will be no dependencies to manage.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As an example, you can create a Makefile to build a deb:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[go]{` VERSION=0.5.0","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    BUILD=$(shell git rev-list --count HEAD)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    widget-dpkg:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      mkdir -p deb/widget/usr/local/bin","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      cp $(GOPATH)/bin/widget  deb/widget/usr/local/bin","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      fpm -s dir -t deb -n widget -v $(VERSION)-$(BUILD) -C deb/widget .","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}```    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Before thinking of creating packages by hand, consider using your continuous integration system as the builder. This way you'll be guaranteed an up-to-date package after every successful build. We are currently using Drone.IO for continuous integration. We're also moving to Makefiles for automating tasks, which are well known and a great way to ensure that everyone who touches the code can test and build it.","spans":[{"start":217,"end":225,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://drone.io/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Taking Advantage Of Go's Ecosystem","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Go provides tools to make it easier to work within its ecosystem. The DO team uses `golint` which finds simple mistakes and ensures that everything has at least a minimal set of documentation. With `godoc` we have an easy to use interface for viewing the documentation for all the code that our projects contain. The Golang Nuts mailing list is an invaluable resource.","spans":[{"start":317,"end":328,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"So far, our short foray into Go has been a great success. Developers not familiar with the language have ramped up and become productive quickly. The language's speed of development, coupled with its easy-to-grasp concurrency, has allowed to us to write better software in a faster manner. We experimented with Go while rewriting our Droplet Console, and that experience has given us the confidence to move forward on multiple new projects.","spans":[{"start":334,"end":349,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/new-super-fast-droplet-console-thanks-golang/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If your team hasn't tried Go, it should be on your short list.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Write Go For DO","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As we continue to write new services, as well as rewrite old ones, we grow a deeper appreciation for the language's strength in building distributed systems. If you're a software engineer that's interested in writing Go – we are hiring.","spans":[{"start":222,"end":235,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://careers.digitalocean.com/careers/software-engineer/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"*Oh, and if you have experience writing Go, feel free to comment below and share your thoughts.*","spans":[{"start":1,"end":95,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by Bryan Liles","spans":[{"start":3,"end":14,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/bryanl"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-06-30","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"get-your-development-team-started-with-go"}}}]}}}