{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-tag-jsx","path":"/blog/tag/product-updates/7/","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. Please check out the release notes for most up to date information on regional availability.","spans":[{"start":86,"end":99,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/release-notes/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Join us at deploy, DigitalOcean’s virtual user conference","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today we have deploy, DigitalOcean’s signature user conference, which focuses on celebrating, educating, and connecting awesome builders from all over the world.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":20,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/home"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Check out the keynote session from DigitalOcean's CEO, Yancey Spruill, in which he talks about where we're headed as a company and shares some exciting product updates. 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. You can see the full list of features below.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The new Droplet Console: More time saving, less time wasting ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is for everyone who is looking to build fast, secure apps and avoid hassles with SSH access & usability issues.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition to easier SSH access, the new Droplet Console comes with:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Copy/paste text: Instead of typing lengthy key pairs and text manually, you can use copy/paste to save time. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":17,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-color support: Multi-color support makes the console more useful and intuitive, and breaks the conventional standard appearance which is black text on a white background. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-language support: DigitalOcean’s new Droplet Console supports multiple languages, meaning you can now type and view any content in any language that is supported by UTF-8","spans":[{"start":0,"end":24,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"OS/images supported: Linux distributions (Ubuntu(16.04 - 20.04), Fedora (32 & 33), Debian (9), CentOS (7.6 & 8.3), CentOS 8 Stream, Rocky Linux and Marketplace images.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":159,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is available by default on any new Droplets you spin up. 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You’re welcome to spin some Droplets up right now, and try out the new Droplet Console – why wait?","spans":[{"start":72,"end":103,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Harsh Banwait, Senior Product Manager","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"Harsh Banwait","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":399},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e83ff690-b20c-4d88-a2b6-57e562558cd6_download.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"harsh-banwait"}},"_meta":{"uid":"new-droplet-console-ssh-support"}},"featured_blog_3":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/588e28d3-d41e-480b-937b-8c3b19201f6e_DODX3568-790x400-Blog.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"How to scale your SaaS product without breaking the bank","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-22","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"These days, if you are in the business of software, chances are you are delivering or plan to deliver your services using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. A combination of internet-based delivery, subscription-based pricing, and low-friction product experiences have made SaaS solutions valuable tools for their users, and an excellent vehicle for software builders looking to distribute their products.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These factors have made SaaS solutions ubiquitous; SaaS is the largest segment in the public cloud market, and is used to provide functionality ranging from personal finance apps for consumers, to productivity software for businesses, and even tools and services for software developers themselves to compose their applications and simplify their workflows. It is also not uncommon to find micro-SaaS applications being built for specific industries such as retail, job functions such as accounting or marketing, or tasks such as event management. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The best thing about this SaaS wave has been that it has allowed a new generation of software builders to build and monetize applications and participate in the digital economy. Previously, you had to be a big company with lots of resources, name recognition and distribution networks to successfully sell software products. Now, irrespective of whether you are a single person working on a passion project, a small team of developers in a startup, or a small and medium-sized business (SMB), the SaaS model enables you to express your ideas in the form of software and deliver them to customers anywhere in the world.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The unique challenges of building SaaS solutions","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Despite the opportunities that come with the widespread adoption of SaaS products, software builders still have to answer key questions in their journey to building successful SaaS products. Understanding what customers to target, features to prioritize, how to price your product, and how to acquire customers are all critical questions to figure out while you are also doing the important job of actually building and operating the product. ","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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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Smaller SaaS teams face challenges with large cloud computing providers, including:","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Too many technology options","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are just too many options for tech stacks on which to build your SaaS - programming languages, application development frameworks, libraries, runtime environments, architectural patterns, and deployment models - and the list is growing by the day.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Complexity of cloud computing services","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Even when you have decided on a technology stack, there is a lot of cloud vendor-specific terminology you need to learn and heavy lifting you need to do to build on the cloud, not all of which contributes to making your SaaS applications successful.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Unpredictable costs","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The experimentation necessary in early stages of SaaS development, as well as the scaling of applications required during the growth phase, call for affordable and predictable pricing from your cloud provider. 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. That is exactly what we have been able to enable through our intuitive products that are built for scale and reliability.","spans":[{"start":205,"end":223,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Vidazoo is an advertising technology company specializing in video streaming and serving. It serves video ads to thousands of websites and handles close to 10 billion requests per day. \n\n“We are as much a data company as an adtech company. Our business relies on speedy and accurate data processing at massive scale. DigitalOcean provides us the perfect set of tools to operate our SaaS business profitably, while not making us feel the need to become full time system administrators. We plan to move a lot of our apps to DigitalOcean App Platform and other fully managed products.” - Roman Svichar, CTO of Vidazoo","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://vidazoo.com/"}},{"start":187,"end":583,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe in meeting customers where they are. If they already have an understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies, they should be able to leverage that knowledge and get started with our products without any further ramp up.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Whatfix is an enterprise SaaS provider that offers a digital adoption platform to businesses. The company helps enterprises gain the full value of their investments in enterprise applications by providing real-time, interactive, and contextual guidance to users of those applications. \n\n“What we really love about the DigitalOcean platform is the ease of use. 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? 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The internet is full of malicious actors probing applications for vulnerabilities and sniffing for open ports. Tools like iptables are essential to any developer’s toolkit, but they can be complicated to use, especially when building distributed services. Adding a new Droplet can require updating your configuration across all of your infrastructure.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we are working to make it easier for developers to build applications and deploy them to the cloud by simplifying the infrastructure experience. Today, we’re excited to bring that approach to security with Cloud Firewalls, an easily configurable service for securing your Droplets. It is free to use and designed to scale with you as you grow.","spans":[{"start":223,"end":238,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By using Cloud Firewalls, you will have a central location to define access rules and apply them to all of your Droplets. 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A simple Firewall that would only allow HTTP, SSH, and ICMP connections from any source would need three rules:","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/65df6a70d0f5a5a2e06e57fd13bfd776fb97c0c8_create-firewall-screenshot.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Create Firewall screenshot","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1046,"height":701}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If someone tried to access this Droplet on any other port—say FTP using port 21—they would receive a timeout because Firewalls filtered out the traffic.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Easy to Configure","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’ve designed Firewalls to be easy to configure. Your source and destination rules can specify individual Droplets by name, Load Balancers, IP ranges, and even sets of Droplets by using Tags.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/1c24ff7323aea25da2ac66d85f9b3794d32ed358_outbound-rules-screenshot.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Outbound rules screenshot","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1021,"height":290}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For finer-grained control, you can also apply multiple Firewalls to a Droplet. This allows you to keep rules for different concerns in different Firewalls. For example, you could create one Firewall called webapp-firewall, that allows only HTTP on port 80, and another called admin-firewall, that allows SSH and ICMP from only a specific IP. Our service will combine their rules and enforce them together.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Beyond the Control Panel, you can manage your Firewalls on the command line with doctl or automate using our RESTful API or our Go and Ruby API client libraries. Expect more integrations to come along soon, thanks to our amazing community.","spans":[{"start":81,"end":86,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl"}},{"start":109,"end":120,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#firewalls"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Works at Scale","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Even without automation, Firewalls makes it much easier to secure distributed applications with large numbers of resources. 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It helps guide us as we continue to work on making your infrastructure more secure and easier to manage at scale. Let us know what you think in the comments below, and stay tuned for major network security improvements later this year.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-06-06","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"cloud-firewalls-secure-droplets-by-default"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":600},"alt":"Sammy avatar","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a10e3c2eb15b74ee43f872be3044313423b1c9a9_sammy_avatar.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"droplets with graphs illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/01fd5d62fe33bee721babce0248161bc0727aa51_monitoring-alerts-notifications-blog-am-v2.2.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"DigitalOcean Monitoring","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"We designed DigitalOcean Monitoring and its service alerts to provide insight into overall Droplet performance. In this post, we’ll cover key design decisions on Droplet-level Monitoring so you can better understand the choices we have made and how you can best use this service.","spans":[{"start":12,"end":35,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"CPU Measurement: Use a consistent scale regardless of the number of CPUs","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When a server has more than one CPU, there are two main ways to display CPU utilization in a single metric. One option is to have each CPU counted as 100% value, so that a two CPU server has a maximum capacity of 200%, while an eight CPU server has a maximum capacity of 800%. The other option is to display the total capacity as 100%, which is what you'll find with DigitalOcean Monitoring.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We used the 0-100 scale on DigitalOcean because it provides a consistent way to think about capacity. For example, when setting up Monitoring, you'll choose 70% when you want to know that 70% of the server's total CPU capacity is being used. This is regardless of the number of processors, so you'll see usage displayed on the same scale.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Notification Thresholds: Prefer certainty over early detection","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just as there are multiple ways to display CPU utilization there are multiple ways to display notification thresholds. At one end of the spectrum, administrators may wish to be notified at the very first sign of an issue. This allows for intervention at the earliest possible moment and can therefore reduce the impact of a problem. Erring on this side, however, can lead to a \"server that cried wolf\" situation where most notifications may not actually indicate an issue. When false alarms regularly get mixed into reports of real problems, time and attention is spent on non-issues. If this happens often enough, notifications of real emergencies may be ignored.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At the other end of the spectrum, administrators may wish to receive notifications only when there is solid indication of a real issue. Sometimes, a temporary situation may resolve itself prior to the administrator even receiving a notification. This can increase trust that the notification requires action, but it also means that users may experience disruption before the situation is brought to an administrator's attention.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We decided to address this question by creating alerts when a server is experiencing a sustained problem. To accomplish this, data is measured each minute and an average of the data points is used. For example, if a service alert is set to send email when the CPU usage is above 90% during a 5-minute interval, the average of those data points must exceed 90% before the notification is triggered. As each minute passes, the oldest datapoint of the interval is dropped, the newest data point is added, and the average is recalculated.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Notification Frequency: Prefer signal over noise","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With service alerts, it is important to balance information sharing with meaningful notifications. For notifications to be useful and actionable, it is important that they do not become too prolific.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We set up DigitalOcean service alerts to send a single notification when a threshold is reached. No additional notifications are sent until the situation is resolved. For example, when the average over 5 minutes drops below 90%, a notification will be sent that the situation is resolved. This, too, is intended to avoid notification fatigue and ensure notifications are more significant.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To learn more about DigitalOcean alerts and notifications, you can get a detailed overview in An Introduction to Monitoring. To create your first alerts, see How to Set Up Service Alerts with DigitalOcean Monitoring. You might also like to explore one of our many tutorials for installing and configuring your own monitoring services.","spans":[{"start":94,"end":123,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-digitalocean-monitoring"}},{"start":158,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-alerts-with-digitalocean-monitoring"}},{"start":255,"end":333,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/monitoring?type=tutorials"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We always welcome feedback! If there are other design decisions we have made that you would like to hear more about, let us know in the comments or open a request on our UserVoice.","spans":[{"start":170,"end":179,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-05-10","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean-monitoring-insight-into-key-decisions"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Ankur Jain","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"ankur_jain"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1576,"height":840},"alt":"graphs illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/5f92538fe55637c159eacdccfd2a120d1c3f1a66_hero.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing Monitoring: Insight into Your Infrastructure","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the lifecycle of your application, knowing when and why an issue in production occurs is critical. At DigitalOcean, we understand this and want to enable developers to make informed decisions about scaling their infrastructure. That's why we are excited to announce our new Monitoring service, available today for free with all Droplets. It gives you the tools to resolve issues quickly by alerting you when one occurs and giving you the information you need to understand it.","spans":[{"start":275,"end":297,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}},{"start":319,"end":323,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Monitoring the applications you've deployed should be as simple and intuitive as the rest of the DigitalOcean experience. Earlier this year, we released an open source agent and improved graphs that give you a better picture of the health of your Droplets. That was just the first piece of the puzzle. The agent offers greater visibility into your infrastructure, and now Monitoring will let you know when to act on that information.","spans":[{"start":156,"end":193,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/improved-graphs/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Monitoring is natively integrated with the DigitalOcean platform and can be enabled at no extra cost by simply checking a box when creating your Droplets. It introduces new alerting capabilities using the metrics collected by the agent, allowing your team to receive email or Slack notifications based on the resource utilization and operational health of your Droplets.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"View Graphs & Statistics","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Monitoring service exposes system metrics and provides an overview of your Droplets' health. The metrics are collected at one-minute intervals and the data is retained for a month, enabling you to view both up-to-the-minute and historical data. The improved Droplet graphs allow you to visualize how your instances are performing over time.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The following metrics are currently available:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"CPU","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Disk I/O","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Memory","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Disk usage","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Inbound and outbound bandwidth","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"A process list ordered by CPU or memory usage","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Create Alert Policies","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can create alert policies on any of your metrics to receive notifications when the metric crosses your specified threshold. An alert policy monitors a single metric over a time period you specify. Alerts are triggered when the state is above or below your threshold for the specified time period. You can leverage DigitalOcean tags to group your Droplets based on your project or environment. Then you can apply the alert policy to specific Droplets or groups of tagged Droplets.","spans":[{"start":309,"end":335,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/droplet-tagging-organize-your-infrastructure/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Alert policies can be created from the Monitoring tab in the DigitalOcean control panel:","spans":[{"start":35,"end":53,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/monitors/new"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/02a1b56ef16a17f97bc3c801c87d21a95def9708_monitoring_create_page.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Create alert","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1045,"height":670}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can find more information about creating alert policies in this tutorial on the DigitalOcean Community site.","spans":[{"start":63,"end":111,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-alerts-with-digitalocean-monitoring"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Configure Notifications","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When you set up an alert policy, you will be able to choose between two notification methods:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Slack Alerts — Post to your team's Slack channel when a new alert is triggered.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":12,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Email Notifications — Send emails when a new alert alert is triggered.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":19,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/15b363b051cbfba0b54112283e9851990f55d96f_slack.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Slack notifications","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":653,"height":316}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You'll receive notifications both when an alert threshold has been exceeded and when the issue has been resolved.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Getting Started","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To enable Monitoring on your Droplets, you'll need to have the agent installed. On new Droplets, it's as simple as clicking the Monitoring checkbox during Droplet creation.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/20d26efd02e34c10a7796f68047a9ab47e17369b_select_monitoring.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Enable monitoring","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":734,"height":125}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On existing Droplets, you can install the agent by running:","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"curl -sSL https://agent.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sh\n","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Find more information on the agent itself in this tutorial on the DigitalOcean Community site.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":93,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-the-digitalocean-agent-for-additional-droplet-graphs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Coming Soon","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With the first iteration of our Monitoring service out the door, we're already working on what's next. Some features you will see soon include:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"API support for alert policies","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Enhanced visualization of alerts","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Monitoring for Block Storage","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Webhooks to notify external services about alerts","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"From alerting on issues to visualizing metrics, we want to provide you with the tools you need to monitor the health and performance of your applications in production. We'd love to hear your feedback. What metrics are important for your team? How can we help integrate Monitoring into your workflow? 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And that goes beyond the control panel; we aim to provide intuitive APIs and tools for each of our products. Since the release of Load Balancers last month, we've worked to incorporate them into our API client libraries and command line client. We've also seen community-supported open source projects extended to support Load Balancers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we want to share several new ways you can interact with Load Balancers.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Command Line: doctl","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"doctl is our easy-to-use, official command line client. Load Balancer support landed in version v1.6.0. You can download the release from GitHub or install it using Homebrew on Mac:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"   ```[php]{` brew install doctl `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can use doctl for anything you can do in our control panel. For example, here's how you would create a Load Balancer:","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    doctl compute load-balancer create --name \"example-01\" \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        --region \"nyc3\" --tag-name \"web:prod\" \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        --algorithm \"round_robin\" \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        --forwarding-rules \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        \"entry_protocol:http,entry_port:80,target_protocol:http,target_port:80\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Find doctl's full documentation in this DigitalOcean tutorial.","spans":[{"start":35,"end":61,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-doctl-the-official-digitalocean-command-line-client"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Go: godo","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We're big fans of Go, and godo is the way to interact with DigitalOcean using Go. Load Balancer support is included in the recently tagged v1.0.0 release. Here's an example:","spans":[{"start":139,"end":153,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/godo/releases/tag/v1.0.0"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    createRequest := &godo.LoadBalancerRequest{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Name:      \"example-01\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Algorithm: \"round_robin\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Region:    \"nyc3\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        ForwardingRules: []godo.ForwardingRule{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            {","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"                EntryProtocol:  \"http\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"                EntryPort:      80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"                TargetProtocol: \"http\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"                TargetPort:     80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            },","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        },","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        HealthCheck: &godo.HealthCheck{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            Protocol:               \"http\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            Port:                   80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            Path:                   \"/\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            CheckIntervalSeconds:   10,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            ResponseTimeoutSeconds: 5,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            HealthyThreshold:       5,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            UnhealthyThreshold:     3,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        },","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        StickySessions: &godo.StickySessions{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"            Type: \"none\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        },","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        Tag:                 \"web:prod\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        RedirectHttpToHttps: false,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    }","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    lb, _, err := client.LoadBalancers.Create(ctx, createRequest)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The library's full documentation is available on GoDoc.","spans":[{"start":36,"end":54,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://godoc.org/github.com/digitalocean/godo"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Ruby: droplet_kit","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"droplet_kit is our Ruby API client library. Version 2.1.0 has Load Balancer support and is now available on Rubygems. You can install it with this command:","spans":[{"start":44,"end":57,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/droplet_kit/releases/tag/v2.1.0"}},{"start":108,"end":116,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://rubygems.org/gems/droplet_kit/versions/2.1.0"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"   ```[php]{` gem install droplet_kit `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And you can create a new Load Balancer like so:","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    load_balancer = DropletKit::LoadBalancer.new(","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      name: 'example-lb-001',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      algorithm: 'round_robin',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      tag: 'web:prod',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      redirect_http_to_https: true,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      region: 'nyc3',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      forwarding_rules: [","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        DropletKit::ForwardingRule.new(","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          entry_protocol: 'http',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          entry_port: 80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          target_protocol: 'http',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          target_port: 80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          certificate_id: '',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"          tls_passthrough: false","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        )","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      ],","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      sticky_sessions: DropletKit::StickySession.new(","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        type: 'none',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        cookie_name: '',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        cookie_ttl_seconds: nil","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      ),","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      health_check: DropletKit::HealthCheck.new(","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        protocol: 'http',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        port: 80,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        path: '/',","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        check_interval_seconds: 10,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        response_timeout_seconds: 5,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        healthy_threshold: 5,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"        unhealthy_threshold: 3","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"      )","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    )","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    client.load_balancers.create(load_balancer)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}```    ","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Community Supported","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Besides our official open source projects, there are two community contributions we'd like to highlight:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"- ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"HashiCorp's declarative infrastructure tool, Terraform, added the digitalocean_loadbalancer resource shortly after the launch of Load Balancers. It's now available in their v0.8.8 release.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":11,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.hashicorp.com/"}},{"start":45,"end":54,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.terraform.io/"}},{"start":173,"end":187,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v0.8.8"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"- ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Lorenzo Setale's Python API client library, python-digitalocean, shipped Load Balancer support in yesterday's v1.11 release. It can be installed using PIP: `pip install -U python-digitalocean`","spans":[{"start":0,"end":16,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/koalalorenzo"}},{"start":44,"end":63,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thanks to our colleagues Viola and Andrew for working on these features, and the open source community for including Load Balancer support in their projects. In particular, we want to give a special shout out to Paul Stack and the rest of our friends at HashiCorp who added support to Terraform so quickly. You rock!","spans":[{"start":25,"end":30,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/viola"}},{"start":35,"end":41,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/andrewsomething"}},{"start":212,"end":222,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/stack72"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We're excited to see more tools add Load Balancer support. If you're the maintainer of a project that has added support, Tweet us @digitalocean. We can help spread the word!","spans":[{"start":130,"end":143,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/digitalocean"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Rafael Rosa","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Product Manager, High Availability","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-03-15","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"more-ways-to-work-with-load-balancers"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Josh Viney","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"Josh Viney","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a2f3442df272c869c0482d6e5ecc23d3fbc6baf1_f2e1ef84a186a79c8c642193dbbed89f.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"josh_viney"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1024,"height":512},"alt":"QR code illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/206b5d62f10af1781a7b7d02e8ae1010ab70edf7_hero.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Updates to DigitalOcean Two-factor Authentication","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today we'd like to talk about security.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We know how challenging it can be to balance security and usability. The user experience around security features can often feel like an afterthought, but we believe that shouldn't be the case. Usability is just as important when it comes to security as any other part of your product because added friction can lead users to make less-secure choices. Today, we want to share with you some updates we rolled out this week to our two-factor login features to make them easier to use.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our previous version required both SMS and an authenticator app to enable two-factor authentication. While SMS can work in a crunch, it's no longer as secure as it once was, delivery for our international customers wasn't always reliable, and tying both methods for authentication to the same mobile device definitely wasn't a great experience for anyone whose phone was unavailable.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our new two-factor authentication features allow developers to choose between an authenticator app or SMS as a primary method, and between downloadable codes, authenticator app, or SMS as backup methods. This way SMS stays an option, but isn't a necessary part of securing access to your DigitalOcean account.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/28746e7048d223ffd3250964c499a06d1af6bea8_2fa-add-backup-method.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Add backup methods","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1082,"height":661}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To take a look at the changes and enable it on your account, simply navigate to Settings and click the link in your profile to \"Enable two-factor authentication.\"","spans":[{"start":128,"end":160,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/security"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/Nzc1ODNlODQtMTJjOC00ZmYwLWE1MjAtMDI4NTc2OGY5MGU5_settings-2fa.gif?auto=compress,format","alt":"Enable two-factor authentication","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1108,"height":628}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Making two-factor authentication a little easier and more broadly available is just a first step. We believe securing access to your infrastructure should be as simple as it is to spin up a few Droplets and a Load Balancer.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Do you have any suggestions for how we can help make security easier? We want to hear from you. We're already considering features like YubiKey support. What else would you like to see?  Please reach out to us on our UserVoice or let us know in the comments below.","spans":[{"start":136,"end":143,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YubiKey"}},{"start":217,"end":226,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Nick Vigier - Director of Security","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Josh Viney - Product Manager, Customer Experience","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-02-23","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"updates-to-digitalocean-two-factor-authentication"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Rafael Rosa","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"Rafael Rosa","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6326cb734e557630247062ec390166664f5d3b63_77d07a0ba7bc27b40afc8f5932c57417.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"rafael_rosa"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":785,"height":418},"alt":"Droplets illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/f8c7101d73d1abaa03a00e01bc28a5d1d6eb4abf_hero.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Load Balancers: Simplifying High Availability","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the past five years, we've seen our community grow by leaps and bounds, and we've grown right alongside it. More and more of our users are managing complex workloads that require more resilience and need to be highly available. Our Floating IPs already enable you to implement an architecture that eliminates single points of failure, but we knew we could do better by bringing our \"DO-Simple\" approach to the problem.","spans":[{"start":237,"end":249,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/floating-ips-start-architecting-your-applications-for-high-availability/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"So today, we are releasing Load Balancers—a fully managed, highly available service that you can deploy as easily as a Droplet.","spans":[{"start":27,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our goal is to provide simple and intuitive tools that let your team launch, scale, and manage production applications of any size. With our Load Balancers, just choose a region and which Droplets will receive the traffic. We take care of the rest.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Load Balancers cost $10/month [note: edited November 5, 2018, from $20/month] with no additional bandwidth charges and are available in all DigitalOcean regions.","spans":[{"start":20,"end":29,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Features","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Load balance TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS workloads within a specific DigitalOcean region.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"When using HTTPS, you can either terminate SSL on our Load Balancer or choose to use a passthrough mode.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Choose your balancing algorithm and configure custom health checks, or use our defaults.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Track Load Balancer usage and troubleshoot problems using the integrated graphs and metrics.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Manage your Load Balancers using our web dashboard or APIs.","spans":[{"start":54,"end":58,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#load-balancers"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For more details, see this overview on our Community site.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":35,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-digitalocean-load-balancers"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Simplified Service Discovery","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your Load Balancer will distribute incoming traffic across your Droplets, allowing you to build more reliable and performant applications by creating redundancy. You can add target Droplets to a Load Balancer by either choosing specific Droplets, or choosing a tag used by a group of Droplets.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With tags, scaling your application horizontally becomes easy. Launch a new Droplet with the tag applied, and it will be automatically added to your Load Balancer's backend pool, ready to receive traffic. Remove the tag, and the Droplet will be removed from the backend pool.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/4d5d954b159ec8c42fc8a41d5b2b4787d9a34b8c_control-panel.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Control panel","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":934,"height":927}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Get started by following this step-by-step guide on our Community site.","spans":[{"start":30,"end":48,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-your-first-digitalocean-load-balancer"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Security & SSL Options","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We didn't forget about security! Here's how Load Balancers' measure up:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"HTTPS configuration that gives you Grade A security out of the box.","spans":[{"start":35,"end":51,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Uploaded SSL certificates are placed in a fully encrypted, isolated, and secure storage system.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Load Balancer logs aren't stored anywhere on our systems (only metrics for troubleshooting).","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Provisioning and operation of our Load Balancers is fully automated; there's no human interaction.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you're configuring a Load Balancer instance to use SSL termination, keep in mind that any Droplet using Shared Private Networking connected to the Load Balancer will have traffic sent to its private IP. Otherwise, it will use the Droplet's public IP. (For full control and end-to-end encryption, choose the \"SSL passthrough\" option.)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Learn more about configuring either SSL termination or SSL passthrough with our Community tutorials.","spans":[{"start":36,"end":51,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-ssl-termination-on-digitalocean-load-balancers"}},{"start":55,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-ssl-passthrough-on-digitalocean-load-balancers"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Coming Soon","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We already have many Load Balancer improvements planned. Some features you will see soon include:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Support for Load Balancers in our Ruby and Go libraries as well as our command-line client, doctl.","spans":[{"start":34,"end":38,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/droplet_kit"}},{"start":43,"end":45,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/godo"}},{"start":92,"end":97,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Integration with Let's Encrypt for provisioning and deploying free TLS certificates with ease.","spans":[{"start":17,"end":30,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://letsencrypt.org/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Alerting on Load Balancer metrics with our upcoming Monitoring solution.","spans":[{"start":52,"end":62,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Improved integration with DNS records managed by DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Improved controls for rolling deployments.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Load Balancers that work across nearby datacenters.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"IPv6 support.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Load Balancers are just the beginning. Our 2017 roadmap is focused on bringing the \"DO-Simple\" experience to more complex, production workloads. Your feedback will help us as we improve Load Balancers and roll out more features, including new storage, security, and networking capabilities. Let us know what you think in the comments!","spans":[{"start":43,"end":55,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/2017-whats-shipping-next-on-digitalocean/"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-02-14","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"load-balancers-simplifying-high-availability"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Julia Austin","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"julia_austin"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1024,"height":512},"alt":"cruise ship illustration ","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a77a8855beb861806f5675788706473dd0cbe3fc_hero-1.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"2017: What's Shipping Next on DigitalOcean","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The start of a new year is a great opportunity to reflect on the past twelve months. At the beginning of 2016, I began advising the team at DigitalOcean and I knew the company and the products were something special. I joined DigitalOcean as the CTO in June 2016 and our engineering team was scaling rapidly, teams were organizing around new product initiatives, and we were gearing up for the second product to be shipped in our company's history: Block Storage.","spans":[{"start":449,"end":462,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Going from one great product to two in 2016 was a major shift for DigitalOcean and the start of what's going to be an exciting year of new capabilities to support larger production workloads in 2017.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/1f7dbe26e1c7f71eac10ee845433b07722704a41_2016_in_review.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"2016 achievements","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1024,"height":1005}},{"type":"heading2","text":"The \"DO-Simple\" Way","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the coming year, we are not only strengthening the foundation of our platform to increase performance and enable our customers to scale, we are also broadening our product portfolio to offer services we know teams of developers need. However, we are not just bringing new products and features to market; we are ensuring that what we offer maintains the \"DO-Simple\" standard that our customers expect and appreciate.","spans":[{"start":308,"end":418,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What does DO-Simple mean? At DigitalOcean, we are committed to sticking to our mission to simplify infrastructure and create an experience that developers love. We are challenging the status quo and disrupting the way developers think about using the cloud. This is an exciting chapter for our company and something we believe sets us apart in the market. We want developers to focus on building their applications, not waste time and money on setting up, configuring, and monitoring. Writing great software is hard. The cloud that software runs on should be easy.","spans":[{"start":90,"end":159,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"2017 Product Horizon","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With distributed systems spread over thousands of servers in 12 datacenters across the world, we have valuable operational knowledge on managing infrastructure at scale. We believe our users can leverage the work we do in-house to manage their own infrastructure. Just this month, we released an open source agent that lets developers get a better picture of the health of their Droplets. We also added several new graphs to the Droplet graphs page and made the existing graphs much more precise. Having visibility into your infrastructure is only the first step, knowing when to act on that information is just as important. That's why later this quarter, we will be releasing additional monitoring capabilities and tools to better manage your Droplets in the DO-Simple way you expect. (Learn more about Monitoring on DigitalOcean.)","spans":[{"start":296,"end":313,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/improved-graphs/"}},{"start":805,"end":831,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As we approach one million registered users and more than 40,000 teams of developers over the last 5 years, it is critical that we give our users the tools, scale and performance that are required to seamlessly launch, scale and manage any size production application. We have more and more customers managing complex workloads and large environments on DigitalOcean that would benefit from a Load Balancer. You can now request early access to Load Balancers on DigitalOcean here.","spans":[{"start":475,"end":479,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/load-balancer/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We aren't stopping at just adding load balancing to our offerings in 2017. We have a number of important capabilities we're working on to to meet your high availability, data storage, security, and networking needs. Additionally, we will continue to iterate and invest in our Block Storage offering by making it available in more datacenter locations around the world.","spans":[{"start":151,"end":192,"type":"strong"},{"start":198,"end":208,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Feedback Matters","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe in building a customer-first organization that is committed to transparency. Therefore, I will continue to share more updates to our roadmap throughout the year. We have an iterative product development approach and engage our customers in many ways as part of the product prioritization and design process. The developer's voice matters at DigitalOcean. We don't assume that we have all the answers. Talking with and listening to the people who use our cloud day in and day out plays a major role in creating the simple and intuitive developer experience we strive to maintain. In the months to come, we will be engaging our customers through each product beta and general release.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Excited about what's coming? Have ideas about what we should do next? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Julia Austin, CTO","spans":[{"start":0,"end":12,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/austinfish"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-01-18","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"2017-whats-shipping-next-on-digitalocean"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Carlos Amedee","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"carlos_amedee"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/35ccb43c-b8b9-4db4-be5f-4386480ab857_improved.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Improved Graphs: Powered by the Open Source DO Agent","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we want to make monitoring the services you've deployed simple and easy. As engineers, we know that having greater insight into the machines running in your fleet increases the speed at which you can troubleshoot issues.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"That's why we're excited to launch new and improved memory and disk space graphs! We've gathered the knowledge that we've learned involving telemetry and performance observability and poured it into an open-source project called `do-agent`. This monitoring application helps you get a better picture of the health of your Droplets by adding several new graphs to the Droplet graphs page and making the existing graphs much more precise.","spans":[{"start":199,"end":239,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/do-agent"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/2e45601f-e327-4e48-a40e-d901d5af28c6_graphs.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"new graphs","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":850,"height":1100}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To get these graphs, you'll need to have the new agent. On new Droplets, just click the **Monitoring** checkbox during Droplet creation.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e0f707a0-1a20-4636-b756-8478f2c1155f_select_monitoring.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"select monitoring","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":734,"height":125}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On existing Droplets, you can install the agent by running:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"    ```[php]{`curl -sSL https://agent.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sh`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Or get all the details in this tutorial on the DigitalOcean community site.","spans":[{"start":47,"end":74,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-the-digitalocean-agent-for-additional-droplet-graphs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Does do-agent Work?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`do-agent` is a lightweight application which runs on Droplets and periodically collects system performance/state metrics. The collected metrics are immediately transmitted to the monitoring API endpoints and made available to you via the Droplet graphs page.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When we began thinking of `do-agent`, security was one of our top priorities; we wanted to take great care not to collect any data that may be considered private. How could we collect the metrics we felt were necessary with an agent that would require the minimum amount of resources and security privileges?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We chose to collect system information from the `/proc` pseudo filesystem, which contains everything from CPU metrics to Linux kernel versions. In true Unix fashion, `/proc` presents system information laid out as files on the filesystem; the hierarchy determines the information you are attempting to access. The greatest benefit we gain from using `/proc` is the ability to access this information as a very low-privileged user.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The `/proc` files are read and converted into metrics that are transmitted via gRPC to a metrics endpoint. The agent authenticates as belonging to your Droplet and tags all of your data with the Droplet ID.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What's Next?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This new agent opens up many possibilities for future tools that will provide insight into Droplet performance. We're not stopping here! Currently, we're working on a suite of tools which will enable engineers to collectively monitor groups of Droplets instead of individual Droplets.","spans":[{"start":167,"end":181,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`do-agent` also has a plugin architecture built in. We don't have any plugins written yet, but this architecture enables us to create them to observe more than just Droplet metrics; you could potentially collect other software performance metrics running on or alongside your software.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Prometheus project was a great inspiration and model for this project (and is used in the agent itself), and the ability for you to install plugins to collect arbitrary metrics was inspired by the Munin open-source project. `do-agent` is itself open source, and we welcome contributions!","spans":[{"start":4,"end":22,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://prometheus.io/"}},{"start":201,"end":206,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://munin-monitoring.org/"}},{"start":228,"end":260,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/do-agent"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We're excited about the possibilities these graphs and this agent open up for us. If you are too, sign up to be the first to know as we begin to roll out new monitoring and alerting features early this year.","spans":[{"start":98,"end":129,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/monitoring/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"  ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By Carlos Amedee","spans":[{"start":3,"end":16,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/cagedmantis"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-01-03","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"improved-graphs"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"David E. Worth","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"David E. Worth","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/88908d6f279ad5cae0d19e5f8f8193854aa2d489_da3f9c3ffc8b92a283a0dc067f6750f7.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"david_e_worth"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/04445093-8458-49ab-abb1-7932e6da088b_droplet-tag.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Droplet Tagging: Organize Your Infrastructure","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we are on a mission to make managing production applications simple. Today, we are officially announcing the addition of Droplet tags to make it even easier to work with large-scale production applications.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last fall, we quietly launched tagging and management of resources via our public API. Since then, over 94,000 Droplets have been tagged including use cases like:","spans":[{"start":31,"end":85,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#tags"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Blue/green deployments","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Ownership assertions, e.g. Droplets tagged webserver:dave or team:metrics","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Environment assertions, e.g. env:production or env:dev","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Application assertions, e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, web","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Even deployment platforms, like Kubernetes!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As developers ourselves, we know how important it is to stay organized when working on and managing applications. Tags are a simple and powerful way to do this.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Do You Use Tags?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When we released tagging via the API, we received a lot of fantastic feedback. It was exciting to see our community embrace a feature to this extent, and it proved that we needed to add tags to our Cloud control panel too.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've added tags to all Droplet-related views, like the main Droplets page, in order to make managing your Droplets and tags simpler from wherever you are - Cloud control panel, Metadata Service, and API.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/aba1adb0-2af5-4e8c-a50d-fbf4f856382d_screenshot1.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"control panel","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1146,"height":896}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We also created a new tag-only view, which allows you to see all Droplets with a given tag. Here, you can see how our team groups our production Droplets by tag:","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b7a29738-034c-47b0-b4f8-339993e3509e_screenshot2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"control panel filtered by tag","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1146,"height":617}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For more detail on how to use tags via the control panel, check out our tagging tutorial on our Community Site.","spans":[{"start":72,"end":110,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-tag-digitalocean-droplets"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What Can You Use Tags For?","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Managing Resource Ownership","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A simple tag like `team:data` or `team:widget` makes it easy to know exactly who is responsible for a given set of Droplets. For example, different teams in a company may share a single DigitalOcean Team, and can use tags to track their resource usage separately. Engineers on an on-call rotation, an ops-team, a finance team, or anyone simply debugging a problem can benefit from these kinds of tags as well.","spans":[{"start":186,"end":203,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-teams-on-digitalocean"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Monitoring and Automation","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Knowing the importance of a given Droplet to the healthy operation of a product is an essential part of ensuring the reliability of your system, and tagging your Droplets with `env:production` or `env:dev` can help facilitate this.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For example, if your alerting infrastructure is tag-aware, rules can be made less sensitive to increased load or memory usage on a staging or development server than on production servers. If your infrastructure management system is sufficiently mature, you may be able to self-heal by scaling your application servers automatically.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Similarly, with Prometheus' file-based service discovery and regular calls to the DigitalOcean API (e.g., by a cronjob), you can dynamically configure metrics based on tags. You can fine tune parameters like scrape interval, evaluation interval, and any external labels you want to apply — which may be tags themselves.","spans":[{"start":16,"end":26,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://prometheus.io/"}},{"start":82,"end":98,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Logging and Data Retention Policies","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Logging and metric data is invaluable, especially during outages, but storing that data can be costly on high-traffic systems. Tagging resources and including those tags in your structured logs can be used to dictate log retention policies. This can help optimize disk usage to ensure critical infrastructure has the most log retention while test servers get little or none. Systems such as RSyslog can apply rules based on JSON-structured logs in CEE format.","spans":[{"start":424,"end":459,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.rsyslog.com/json-elasticsearch/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Deployments and Infrastructure Management","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A common strategy for testing and rolling out deployments is to use blue/green deployments. Implementing a blue/green deployment becomes easy with tags; simply use two tags, `blue` and `green`, to track which Droplets are in which set, then use the API to trigger the promotion (by switching the traffic direction later, e.g. by updating a Floating IP, load balancer configuration, or DNS record).","spans":[{"start":107,"end":128,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-blue-green-deployments-to-release-software-safely#what-is-blue-green-deployment"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Infrastructure management is an art in and of itself. Recently, our own Tommy Murphy contributed support for DigitalOcean's tags to HashiCorp's Terraform infrastructure automation platform. This has been used to build lightweight firewall management tooling (GitHub) to ensure that hosts with a given tag can pass traffic but will drop traffic from any other host.","spans":[{"start":72,"end":84,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/tam7t"}},{"start":109,"end":153,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/do/r/tag.html"}},{"start":259,"end":265,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/tam7t/droplan"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"What's Coming Up Next?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Being able to tag your Droplets is only the beginning. We know that Block Storage, Floating IPs, DNS records, and other resources are all critical parts of your production infrastructure too. In order to make your deployment, monitoring, and development infrastructure simpler to manage, we're working on letting you manage entire groups of resources via tags over the coming months.","spans":[{"start":68,"end":81,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/block-storage-more-space-to-scale/"}},{"start":83,"end":95,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/floating-ips-start-architecting-your-applications-for-high-availability/"}},{"start":97,"end":108,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/digitalocean-labs-presents-dns-management/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thank you to everyone who has used tags and provided feedback. We hope these improvements help make it a little easier for you to build and ship great things. Please keep the feedback coming. How do you use tagging to manage your infrastructure? We would love to hear from you!","spans":[{"start":166,"end":190,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by David E. 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With the help of more than 15,000 beta users, we have designed an experience that is focused on reducing friction and allowing you to scale with ease.","spans":[{"start":195,"end":212,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&amp;q=digitalocean%20upcoming%20storage"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With Block Storage, you can now scale your storage independently of your compute and have more control over how you grow your infrastructure, enabling you to build and scale larger applications more easily. Like the Droplet, Block Storage is SSD-based and has an easy-to-use API. Our pricing model is straightforward, based only on capacity: $0.10/GB per month. 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With a single login, everyone can now be a part of up to 10 teams.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Easily switch between teams and your personal account","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There is now an easy-to-use dropdown for switching between your personal account and teams, located at the top-right of the control panel.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/1bf9210b25296ad11190646ef29f174c6ef48cb9_cp.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Switching teams","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":410}},{"type":"heading3","text":"Better invitations & team management","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It's easier than ever to invite members of your team. We added Gmail support, so you can connect and quickly invite your existing team in just a few clicks. 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