{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-tag-jsx","path":"/blog/tag/product-updates/8/","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":""}},{"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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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. You can also enable it manually on older Droplets. 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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. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. If you are interested in learning more about product updates, technical deep-dives and best practices for building SaaS products and businesses, please contact us to learn how we can help you get started. ","spans":[{"start":340,"end":357,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Come build with DigitalOcean!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Looking to migrate your SaaS to DigitalOcean? 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Anyone who has ever shared an account login with someone knows how frustrating it can be. We are proud to announce that Team Accounts are here!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We're particularly excited about this release as it will better support teams of developers and companies working on large-scale and established applications.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Happiness in Simple Things","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we pride ourselves in providing the simplest infrastructure experience. With Team Accounts, we wanted to create a feature that allows teams to seamlessly work together.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Previously, a team shared a single login to access their DigitalOcean infrastructure, hardly the best scenario if the main account holder leaves or changes the password. Team Accounts now allows multiple individuals to have their own 2-Factor enabled login. 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We couldn't have built this feature without the awesome feedback we received during user testing, and as we continue evolving Team Accounts to suit your needs, we hope you'll share your feedback on our Uservoice page.","spans":[{"start":311,"end":320,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This exciting new feature is possible because of a huge team effort inside and outside of DigitalOcean. We hope you'll enjoy being part of a TEAM as much as we do.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can read up on the specifics of Team Accounts in our tutorial.","spans":[{"start":57,"end":65,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-digitalocean-team-accounts"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by Edward Chiu","spans":[{"start":3,"end":14,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/edwardchiu"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-06-08","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"team-accounts-share-resources-not-passwords"}}},{"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":392},"alt":"API v2 letters on illustration ","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a5e8bb97b3671f4d3b85bd49704a7d026ac5b5b7_apiv2.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"API v2 Officially Leaves Beta","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are very pleased to announce that API v2 is coming out of beta, nine months after its initial release. With this release we wanted to introduce new features not available in v1, while maintaining the level of simplicity developers loved in our first version. To help us keep it simple and stomp out bugs, we called on the community to collaborate with us in a public GitHub repository. The last nine months of collaboration with the community ensured our API remained awesome as we added these new features.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our previous API was simple and easy to use. However, it lacked features allowing developers to interact with DigitalOcean in more advanced ways. We knew we wanted to include new features like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"OAuth","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Pagination","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"A (more) RESTful interface","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We wanted to add all of these features in v2, but were wary of increasing the complexity for our community. So, our first tactic was to introduce only new features the community was actually requesting. This involved taking internal and customer feedback even before launching in beta through UserVoice, internal dogfooding, and support tickets. Then during the beta, we received a constant stream of new feedback via the public GitHub repo.","spans":[{"start":293,"end":302,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/"}},{"start":422,"end":440,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitalocean/api-v2"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Close collaboration with the community allowed us to fix several bugs as well as add a couple of very useful features. We received a high amount of feedback about the images endpoint, for example — specifically around filtering and maintaining an acceptable level of response time. 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FreeBSD also offers a simple, yet powerful package management system that allows you to compile and install third-party software for your system with ease.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One particularly compelling attribute of the FreeBSD project is the quality of their documentation, including the FreeBSD Handbook which provides a comprehensive and thoughtful overview of the operating system. We at DigitalOcean love effective and concise technical writing, and so we've also produced numerous FreeBSD tutorials to aid new users with Getting Started with FreeBSD.","spans":[{"start":85,"end":98,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.freebsd.org/docs.html"}},{"start":114,"end":130,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/"}},{"start":304,"end":330,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/freebsd?primary_filter=tutorials"}},{"start":353,"end":381,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd-10-1"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that this has been a long standing user request, and we've heard you. You might be asking yourself - what took so long?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The internal structure of DigitalOcean's engineering team has rapidly changed over time due to the dynamic growth of the company. What began as a couple of guys coding furiously in a room in Brooklyn has ballooned to a 100+ person organization serving hundreds of thousands of users around the globe. As we've grown, by necessity we've needed to adjust and reorganize ourselves and our systems to be able to better serve our users. There have been many experiments in how we approach, prioritize and execute this work; this image is a result of the successful alignment of a few key elements.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Technical Foundation","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last year, we built our metadata service — allowing a droplet to have access to information about itself at the time that it's being created. This is a powerful thing because it gives a vanilla image a mechanism to configure itself independently. This service was a big part what allowed us to offer CoreOS, and in building it, it gave us more flexibility in what we could offer moving forward. Our backend code would no longer need to know the contents of the image to be able to serve it. On creation, the droplet itself could query for configurables — hostnames, ssh keys, and the like — and configure itself instead of relying on a third party.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This fundamental decoupling is an echo of a familiar refrain: build well defined interfaces and don't let knowledge leak across those boundaries unnecessarily. It's allowed us to free images from customization by our backend code, and entirely sidestep the problematic issue of modifying a UFS filesystem from a Linux host.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since we now had a feasible mechanism to allow images to be instantiated independently of our backend, we just needed to put the parts together that would allow us to inject the configuration upon creation. FreeBSD doesn't itself offer cloud versions of the OS similar to what Canonical and Red Hat provide, so we started from a publicly available port of cloud-init meant to allow FreeBSD to run on OpenStack.","spans":[{"start":349,"end":367,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://pellaeon.github.io/bsd-cloudinit/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In order to query metadata, we need to have an initial network configuration in order to build our configuration, since DigitalOcean's droplets use static networking. During boot time, we bring up the droplet on a v4 link-local address in order to do the initial query to the service. From there, we pick up the real network config, hostname, and ssh keys. The cloud-init project then writes a configuration that's associated with the droplet's ID. Linking this configuration to the droplet ID is the mechanism that allows it to know whether the image is being created from a snapshot or new create, or is just a rebooted instance of an already configured droplet.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Once this configuration has been injected, FreeBSD's boot process can continue and use it accordingly — eventually booting into the instance as expected.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Focus","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This endeavor began life as an experiment in how we organize ourselves in the engineering team. We were given a few weeks to pick a project, self organize in cross-functional teams, and execute. A lot went right during this process that allowed this project to succeed.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Deadlines are powerful things. Not in a punitive or negative sense of the word, but in a sense that there will be a well defined time where work on this will collectively end. So is having a very clear picture of what \"done\" looks like. In the case of BSD, it was particularly powerful to have a clear goal of a alpha functional BSD droplet with a date to drive for. Given the freedom to focus on a single goal, clear communication, and well defined restraints, we were able to finally deliver a long standing user request with relative ease.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This is the start to the many things we're excited to build in 2015!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By: Neal Shrader","spans":[{"start":4,"end":16,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/icosahedral"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-01-13","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"presenting-freebsd-how-we-made-it-happen"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"David E. Worth","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"David E. 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Your team may want to deploy a feature-branch containing new customer or user-facing code in order to get feedback or stand up a demo-instance of your product for a customer at the touch of a button. This blog post will cover how you can accomplish these and other use cases with the DigitalOcean API.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Mitchell Anicas has written about using Metadata via the API in the DigitalOcean Community. With that as a starting point, we can create some workflows that automatically deploy applications to Droplets. With the DigitalOcean API and `CloudInit` accessed via User-Data we can","spans":[{"start":40,"end":60,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-droplet-metadata"}},{"start":236,"end":245,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"- Get an application or source code onto a Droplet","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"- Run an application in a Docker container so that it \"just works\" with a","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"single API call","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"- Setup configuration management tools automatically","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Getting your application code to the Droplet","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Before we can run our application, its source code or binary needs to be on a Droplet. As Mitchell described, spinning up a new Droplet via the API is very simple so our only modification will be in setting up an application stored in public version control, specifically GitHub. If your project happens to be on another service such as BitBucket or another hosted version-control service the appropriate changes should be simple.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Suppose I have a public GitHub repository housing a Rails application that I would like to deploy to a Droplet via the API. Using the User-Data functionality I can simply install Git and clone the repository in the `runcmd` block of the Cloud Config:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" curl -X POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets \\ ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Authorization: Bearer ' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -d '{\"name\":\"example.com\", \"region\":\"nyc3\", \"size\":\"512mb\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"image\":\"ubuntu-14-04-x64\", \"ssh_keys\":null, \"backups\":false,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"ipv6\":false, \"private_networking\":false,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"user_data\":\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" #cloud-config","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" runcmd: ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - apt-get install -y git","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - git clone https://github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4 /opt/apps/sample_app_rails_4","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"}'","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the case where we are cloning a private repository, we can simply change the `git clone` command to include a token issued by GitHub:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" git clone https://:x-oauth-basic@github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4 /opt/apps/sample_app_rails_4 ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Similarly, if we want to deploy a specific feature-branch of the repository we can simply use the `-b` flag to specify that branch:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" git clone -b feature/some-great-feature https://github.com/our_team/our_big_project.git /opt/apps/our_big_project ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Getting your application running!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Simply cloning your code onto a fresh running Droplet is nice, but is not nearly as useful as having your application \"just work\" on that Droplet. We've written fairly extensively about Docker previously, including a Getting Started Guide to using it on DigitalOcean. Not every image at DigitalOcean supports User-Data but conveniently our Docker Application Image does, allowing you to deploy a running instance of your application on it.","spans":[{"start":162,"end":180,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/docker"}},{"start":218,"end":239,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-getting-started"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are going to work through the process of getting an example Rails 4 application up and running on a new Droplet using User-Data and Docker. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I have forked the Sample Rails 4 application from railstutorial to my personal github in the `sample_app_rails_4` repository. In my fork I included a `Dockerfile` which configures a Docker container with all of the application's dependencies, sets up its database, and finally runs the application.","spans":[{"start":50,"end":63,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/railstutorial"}},{"start":94,"end":112,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4"}},{"start":151,"end":161,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4/blob/master/Dockerfile"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With that file in the repository, modifying our User-Data to run the application is very simple. First change the image from `\"ubuntu-14-04-x64\"` to an image that ships with Docker (to find those use our `/v2/images` API endpoint with application image filters). In this case we will use `Docker 1.4.1 on 14.04` whose `slug` is `docker`. We can instruct Docker to build and run our container while exposing ports 80 and 443 to the application's HTTP(s) server port (in this case 3000) by changing the `user_data` field in our JSON body as follows. Walking through the commands below, we first install git and clone down our sample application with it. We then instruct Docker to build a container from the application, run it, and bind ports 80 and 443 to the rails server running on port 3000.","spans":[{"start":204,"end":260,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/#list-all-application-images"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" curl -X POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets \\ ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Authorization: Bearer ' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -d '{\"name\":\"example.com\", \"region\":\"nyc3\", \"size\":\"512mb\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"image\":\"docker\", \"ssh_keys\":null, \"backups\":false,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"ipv6\":false, \"private_networking\":false,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"user_data\":\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" #cloud-config","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" runcmd: ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - apt-get -y install git","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - git clone https://github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4.git /opt/apps/sample_app_rails_4","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - docker build -t sample_app_rails_4 /opt/apps/sample_app_rails_4","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - docker run --name sample_app_rails_4 -p 80:3000 -p 443:3000 -d sample_app_rails_4","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"}'","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}``` ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For the sake of simplicity and brevity in this post, we have simplified the deployed application to use SQLite3 in production. In the case where you have a more realistic infrastructure including relational databases, key-value stores, full-text search engines, etc, you will need to build separate Docker containers for each and link them up. The [dockerfile project](https://github.com/dockerfile) on GitHub has `Dockerfile`s for many of your favorite projects to help you on your way.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Building new Droplets using Configuration Management","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For larger and more complicated infrastructure many teams will lean on sophisticated configuration management tools to automate everything and refocus their attention on more challenging problems than installing dependencies. The DigitalOcean community has covered several options in their tutorials: Puppet, Ansible, and Chef. Many of those tools include modules for interacting with DigitalOcean already such as Knife's DigitalOcean Plugin and Ansible's DigitalOcean Module but at the time of this writing they do not include User-Data support. Much of the same functionality from our previous User-Data example can be replicated in a Configuration-Management system such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible. As the complexity of your configuration grows User-Data alone can become unwieldy. Configuration management tools allow you break your configurations into more manageable units. ","spans":[{"start":301,"end":307,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-with-puppet-code-manifests-and-modules"}},{"start":309,"end":316,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-ansible-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps"}},{"start":322,"end":326,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-plugin-for-knife-to-manage-droplets-in-chef"}},{"start":414,"end":441,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-plugin-for-knife-to-manage-droplets-in-chef"}},{"start":446,"end":475,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://docs.ansible.com/digital_ocean_module.html"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We can use User-Data to install and configure our configuration-management tools, which can in-turn, configure your application. Using the previous User-Data techniques we can install Puppet, fetch your manifests, and configure the Droplet. Here we fetch Puppet Lab's package and install it (per their instructions). We then update Apt and install both puppet and git. After getting those packages installed, we clone our Puppet manifests and apply them. After that we are free to do whatever we like with our newly configured Droplet.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[html]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" curl -X POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets \\ ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H 'Authorization: Bearer ' \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -d '{\"name\":\"puppet.example.com\", \"region\":\"nyc3\", \"size\":\"512mb\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"image\":\"ubuntu-14-04-x64\",","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"user_data\":\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" #cloud-config","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" runcmd: ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-precise.deb","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - apt-get update","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - apt-get -y install puppet","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - apt-get -y install git","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - git clone https://:x-oauth-token@github.com/our_team/puppet_manifests.git /etc/puppet/manifests","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" - # ... do something with your newly configured infrastructure... for instance, setup some containers!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" \"}'","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Packaging our Application for easy deployment","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Because all of our work is being executed with standard tools like `curl`, we can codify it in a simple shell script which could even be shipped with your open-source projects. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Simply including a `deploy_to_do.sh` script in your project would help new users quickly get a working application on DigitalOcean right from your github repo. ","spans":[{"start":19,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/daveworth/sample_app_rails_4/blob/master/deploy_to_do.sh"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here's an example script:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"```[bin]`{","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" #!/bin/sh","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" # Deploy our cool tool to DigitalOCean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" # Make sure you set the DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN environment variable to your API token before running.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" set -e # Stop on first error ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" set -u # Stop if an unbound variable is referenced","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" curl -X POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets \\ ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" # ... the rest of your command goes here","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The User-Data functionality support in DigitalOcean's API allows you and your team to automatically run your code on Droplets. By automating the deployment process, your team will be able spin up new instances of your application on Droplets as quickly as running any other command. From there testing new features or letting prospective clients use their own demo instance is one command away!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Have any questions about automating your infrastructure using User-Data? Found any exciting use cases? Let us know in the comment section!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by David E Worth","spans":[{"start":3,"end":16,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/david_e_worth"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-01-08","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"automating-application-deployments-with-user-data"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Sharon Campbell","author_image":null,"_meta":{"uid":"sharon_campbell"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":400},"alt":"dns","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/32cc248d-5e59-48da-be50-8435c81d1b6a_dns_banner.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Coming To Port 53 Near You: The New DigitalOcean DNS!","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the past few months, our engineering team has been hard at work replacing our current DNS resolvers with a lightning fast solution. We've updated our old architecture with a much more scalable and reliable system for creating and resolving DNS entries.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The main concern with rolling out this new system was the potential of any downtime. 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We performed a full backfill of the DNS entries into the new system by using the new DNS API endpoints. This did two things for us: 1) It stress tested the application for a high amount of requests; and 2) it backfilled all of the data into the new application.","spans":[{"start":233,"end":235,"type":"strong"},{"start":304,"end":306,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We also had the challenge of converting our DNS entries from BIND syntax into a Fully Qualified Domain Name, which is a requirement in our new system. This proved to be a challenge – we ended up having many records that became inconsistent with the old implementation of DNS. We solved this by creating a small conversion library that accepts BIND syntax and returns a FQDN.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While our users were adding or updating DNS entries, we were concurrently writing to the new service, preparing it for prime time. If the service could not accept the record, say because of a failed validation, it was logged to a separate list of entries that existed in the old system (but not the new). This allowed us to triage issues separately and notify customers that they have invalid DNS entries, should that be the case.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a90110ac83f83661b9ca2149b5951f303c03b08d_dns-both.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"new architecture diagram","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":652,"height":265}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After we were confident that we had a reliable system, we switched over the concurrent writes to be synchronous. Creating a domain record, for example, would now be written to both systems synchronously. If either failed, the transaction would be rolled back and the error was presented to the user. This was great because it allowed us to populate both systems with good certainty that they matched each other.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Turning It Up To 11","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On the 27th of October, we slowly rolled out changes to the first nameserver, fixed minor configuration issues, and then continued to flip over each nameserver slowly. Now all of our DNS is served off the new architecture and we're very pleased with it. Propagation is nearly instant from the moment you hit Submit on a domain entry.","spans":[{"start":308,"end":314,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Takeaways","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We found that splitting our DNS into its own service proved to be immensely more powerful. Also, instead of doing a hard cutover, writing concurrently to the new service found issues that likely would have been missed if we had switched over without a proper release plan.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you enjoy a much faster DNS!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by Robert Ross","spans":[{"start":3,"end":14,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/robertoross"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-11-18","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"coming-to-port-53-near-you-new-digitalocean-dns"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"mesosphere","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/556c23cc-3cb7-429c-b787-985d18df9c3b_mesosphere.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Pool Your Resources With DigitalOcean Droplets + Mesosphere And Deploy Your App In Seconds","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Now you can spin up Mesosphere clusters on DigitalOcean! This is an easy way to deploy, scale, and manage your applications.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our friends at Mesosphere created an automated provisioning tool where you can simply choose your plan and launch. In a few clicks you'll have a self-healing environment that offers fault tolerance and scalability with minimal configuration.","spans":[{"start":37,"end":64,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.mesosphere.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The potential for developers is huge, as Mesosphere's API gives users the ability to manage literally thousands of Droplets like a single computer. This makes it simple to run a number of applications, services, and diverse workloads side-by-side on the Mesosphere cluster, as well as expand its size at any time by simply adding Droplets.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To get started, simply visit the Mesosphere web page, sign up, and pick an installation option:","spans":[{"start":54,"end":61,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.mesosphere.com/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Development: 4 instances of the 2GB Droplets","spans":[{"start":0,"end":12,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Highly-Available: 10 instances of the 2GB Droplets","spans":[{"start":0,"end":17,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Custom: choose the number and types of instances","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our hope is that Mesosphere's technology will save you a lot of time and make you much more productive. With much of the DevOps work abstracted, you can focus your attention fully on your applications instead of worrying about servers and hostnames.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"– Team DO","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-10-28","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"pool-your-resources-with-digitalocean-droplets-and-mesosphere"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"metadata","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/ee8c16fb-98bd-4422-a97e-3b9713232535_metadata.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Easily Automate The Provisioning Of Your DigitalOcean Droplets!","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our metadata service is live! This enables Droplets to query information about themselves, and allows the use of CloudInit to bootstrap new servers. This is significant for users who want to improve the automation of their server provisioning process. As there are several products and services tied into this release, we want to provide a quick overview to get users up and running.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What kind of information is available via metadata?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Examples of available Droplet metadata include Droplet ID, data center region, IP addresses, and user-data.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What is user-data?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"User-data is a special piece of metadata that can be provided by the user during the Droplet creation process. This data can be consumed by CloudInit to configure a server.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Which regions support metadata?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At launch, the SGP1, SFO1, LON1, AMS2, AMS3, & NYC3 regions have metadata available. It is enabled on new droplets in these regions.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What is CloudInit?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"CloudInit is a process enabled on recent DigitalOcean images that is able to pull down and process information from metadata. When the Droplet boots for the first time, the CloudInit program executes the script it finds in the \"user-data\" field, providing users the opportunity to automate the initial configuration of their servers.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Which images can process metadata information with CloudInit?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Currently, Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7 base images have CloudInit enabled. Any one-click apps based on these releases will also have this functionality available. CoreOS servers also process the \"user-data\" field using a different mechanism.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Where can I learn more about using metadata and CloudInit?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have prepared community articles that cover using the metadata service and writing scripts for CloudConfig. 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This is our first region in Amsterdam running v1.5 of our backend codebase, and we're actively seeking new regions to service developers throughout Europe. 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Now all developers that wish to spin up Droplets in AMS3 can select CoreOS as their operating system, allowing for the easiest way to get started using containers and distributed systems.","spans":[{"start":81,"end":101,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/coreos-now-available-on-digitalocean/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can click here to launch a CoreOS image, or here to check out our tutorial series on getting started with CoreOS.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":18,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?image=coreos-alpha"}},{"start":48,"end":52,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/getting-started-with-coreos-2"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-09-10","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"were-bringing-new-features-to-europe-ipv6-coreos-more"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"new community features","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/5ea3789d-9f8c-4503-9d33-1965e0bf80b6_new-community-header.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Our New Community: User Profiles, Upvoting, Notifications and More!","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"You may have noticed changes in the DigitalOcean community. Following the launch of our new website back in March, we have further upgraded the community to now offer a redesigned interface, user profiles, manual subscriptions, upvoting, and an overall more community-driven platform.","spans":[{"start":36,"end":58,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.com/community/"}},{"start":88,"end":99,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When our community site first launched in the spring of 2012, it featured ten Linux tutorials written by an in-house writer and received roughly 1,500 visitors its first week. We're so grateful that as we've grown, the community has come together to sustain the site. Currently, over 50% of DigitalOcean's near 800 tutorials come from outside submissions, and our questions and projects sections are also built up by community contributions.","spans":[{"start":311,"end":324,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials"}},{"start":364,"end":373,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions"}},{"start":378,"end":386,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Now the community site receives over 1.5 million visitors each month.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've put a lot of time and effort into creating a space where we can give back, and that developers of all types can call home. Today, are excited to announce some of the biggest new features of the growing DO community.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"New Features","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have introduced quite a few new features to the community, and will continue improving these features and adding more based on user feedback. Some of our newest features are:","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"\nUser Profiles","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/7089e1be6a4c1007d0c96ad6de931c43bc42f72d_feature-profile.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":262,"height":183}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Keep track of your contributions, showcase your information, connect with other users, and modify your preferences in our newly introduced community profile.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"\nSubscriptions","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e883e56103a6fd25a10ac4b55af80b0ce91b8a0d_feature-subscriptions.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":262,"height":182}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Users are automatically subscribed to content they create, and can manually subscribe to any question or tutorial within the community.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"\nNotifications","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a76523c9937594ab0be8414e1865934860b8bf23_feature-notifications.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":262,"height":182}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Stay in the know by receiving both in-app and email notifications whenever another user takes action on your post.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"\nLove your Content!","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b251def79b84d89a24f0f91532eede013a8597ff_feature-love.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":262,"height":182}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Did you find a fellow community member's post helpful? Give it some love! This will count as a point toward that user, as well as upvote the post in the thread.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"\nThreaded Discussions","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8a81b2aab9d7232b85a159203a912690f0727529_feature-discussions.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":262,"height":182}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We can't help but be excited about our new commenting system. You can also format your answers in markdown syntax, or use our visual editor to do that for you.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A special thank you to Tanooki. Under the guidance of our Creative Director, they were able to bring you these features as quickly as possible. Now create a user profile and explore your new community. More features and refined interfaces coming soon :)","spans":[{"start":23,"end":30,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://tanookilabs.com/"}},{"start":59,"end":76,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/ChasingUX"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-09-07","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"our-new-community-user-profiles-upvoting-notifications-and-more"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"Core OS","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0fcf4a01-7224-4a98-9ffe-210625d1eec0_DocoreOS.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"CoreOS Now Available On DigitalOcean!","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"It's finally here – we're very pleased to announce that developers can begin using CoreOS on DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There's been a lot of community excitement for CoreOS. This integration with the alpha channel version on DO provides an easy and quick way for web and mobile developers interested in working with Docker to deploy applications and experiment with containers. On CoreOS, Docker containers can boot in milliseconds, providing unprecedented flexibility in managing load across a cluster of Droplets. Some additional features include automatic updates, automatic network configuration, and integration with etcd technology.","spans":[{"start":47,"end":53,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://coreos.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Through CoreOS's etcd technology, users can deploy a cluster of servers configured to work with one another, ensuring the resiliency of their architecture. This feature greatly reduces the impact of a possible server failure, supporting high-traffic applications. And for those looking for commercial support, CoreOS Managed Linux is delivered as an OS as a Service. We hope developers using our infrastructure are as excited as we are about the possibilities now available through CoreOS on our platform.","spans":[{"start":310,"end":330,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://coreos.com/products/managed-linux/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/55f1d4044caef07d457575b55b58a58c4b51d631_coreosdistribution.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":179}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Google, Facebook, and Twitter utilize similar strategies to allow for growth and resilient systems. \"The easiest way to get started using containers, distributed systems and the next generation of infrastructure is now available to millions of developers on DigitalOcean,\" said Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS. \"Let the developer community go wild.\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Click here to launch a CoreOS image. Click here for our series on getting started with CoreOS.","spans":[{"start":6,"end":10,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?image=coreos-alpha"}},{"start":43,"end":47,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/getting-started-with-coreos-2"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-09-03","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"coreos-now-available-on-digitalocean"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"NYC expanding capacity","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/93cc0565-4c88-41b3-b2e3-5675db1ea1b4_nyc3capacity.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Announcing NYC3 With IPv6 Support","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"NYC3 is live! To keep up with the high demand for capacity on the East Coast, we've opened a new datacenter location in New York: NYC3. This will be the first US location with IPv6 support, which can be enabled during Droplet creation or added to existing Droplets. Private networking is also available in NYC3.","spans":[{"start":130,"end":134,"type":"strong"},{"start":176,"end":188,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ever since the launch of our new API, power users have been spinning up a rainstorm of Droplets. Like a NY apartment, space was getting tight on our servers, so we've expanded our East Coast presence to ensure server capacity for all users in the region.","spans":[{"start":29,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/api-v2-enters-public-beta/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Below are DO articles that will help you get started with IPv6 on your Droplets:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"How To Enable IPv6 For DigitalOcean Droplets","spans":[{"start":0,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-enable-ipv6-for-digitalocean-droplets"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"How To Configure Tools To Use IPv6 on a Linux VPS","spans":[{"start":0,"end":49,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-tools-to-use-ipv6-on-a-linux-vps"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"How To Add Additional IPv6 Addresses to your Droplet","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-additional-ipv6-addresses-to-your-droplet"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"How To Configure Your Droplet to Only Use IPv6 Networking","spans":[{"start":0,"end":57,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-your-droplet-to-only-use-ipv6-networking"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can also navigate the IPv6 tag for more IPv6 articles and questions in our community","spans":[{"start":79,"end":88,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-08-18","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"announcing-nyc3-with-ipv6-support"}}},{"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":750,"height":400},"alt":"oauth","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/ea4c857d-93d3-4a3d-b5f3-89b7d4d2e280_oauth_sammy.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Integrate Your Apps With Our API Using OAuth","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"OAuth 2 is now available for applications harnessing the DigitalOcean API, giving developers an easy way to integrate their applications with user accounts. Users can quickly authorize third-party applications with read or read & write access to their DigitalOcean account without exposing personal credentials.","spans":[{"start":57,"end":73,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/v2/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Prior to OAuth support, applications that used the API required users to supply their personal access token, a manual and inconvenient process. The new OAuth flow, available in APIv2, is much better suited for web applications, as users can safely and easily provide access to their accounts through a DigitalOcean authorization request page.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/c29e9aa5778d5f8316a68dec1533a0217339ac6c_authorize_application.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Authorize Application page","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":336}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, users can view and revoke account access to authorized applications within the DigitalOcean control panel.","spans":[{"start":93,"end":119,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/applications"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Getting Started","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since we use Ruby internally, we are providing our open source OAuth strategy for the community to use. The omniauth-digitalocean gem is on Github and published to RubyGems. Based on OmniAuth, the widely used Rack-based library for multi-provider authentication, the gem is an easy way to integrate \"sign in with DigitalOcean\" into Rails and Rack frameworks. We are excited to join the growing list of providers with OmniAuth strategies.","spans":[{"start":108,"end":133,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitaloceancloud/omniauth-digitalocean"}},{"start":183,"end":191,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/intridea/omniauth"}},{"start":386,"end":398,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've also developed some community resources to help you get started with OAuth, including a general intro to OAuth 2 and a tutorial on how to use OAuth with DigitalOcean both as a user and as a developer.","spans":[{"start":94,"end":118,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-oauth-2"}},{"start":137,"end":171,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-oauth-authentication-with-digitalocean-as-a-user-or-developer"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As we continue to refine our new API, we always appreciate any feedback on our API v2 Github page. And if you want to let people know about what you've built, submit your applications to the DigitalOcean projects page. We're excited to highlight the great work of the DO community.","spans":[{"start":79,"end":97,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/digitaloceancloud/api-v2"}},{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-07-23","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"integrate-your-apps-with-our-api-using-oauth"}}}]}}}