Awesome DigitalOcean – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of awesome DigitalOcean guides, blogs, and other resources.

DigitalOcean’s tagline is it is a simple and robust cloud computing platform, designed for developers. With DigitalOcean you can easily spin up cloud compute and storage resources either indivdually or with a team.

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Contents

• Community
• Configuration management
• Developer documentation
• Open source projects
• Commercial integrations
• Community OSS projects
• Clients
• Video tutorials
• Other

Community

• Tutorial Search and Index
• Community articles by tag
• Questions
• Projects
• Meetups

Configuration management

• Using Ansible with DigitalOcean
• Ansible Cloud Modules – DigitalOcean
• Terraform – DigitalOcean Provider
• DigitalOcean in Action! – Example repo for using DigitalOcean with Terraform and Ansible.
• Use DigitalOcean as Dynamic DNS

Developer documentation

• API
• Spaces API
• OAuth
• Droplet Metadata
• Official DO Release Notes – Notes tracking incremental improvements and major releases for the DigitalOcean cloud platform.
• DigitalOcean API Slugs

Open source projects

• Open Source @ DigitalOcean
• Netbox
• Doctl – Official command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API.
• go-libvirt
• go-qemu

Commercial integrations

• HostLaunch – Launch a hosting company based on DigitalOcean and ServerPilot.
• SimpleBackups – Tool for scheduling DigitalOcean backups (files & databases) on auto-pilot.
• SnapShooter – Tool for taking Daily to Hourly backups of Droplets and Volumes
• Weap.io – Hourly to Daily DigitalOcean backups. Tool for scheduling more frequent DigitalOcean backups

Community OSS projects

• do-sshuttle – Transparent Proxying via sshuttle to DigitalOcean Droplet.
• drophosts – Update /etc/hosts with peer droplets.
• droplan – Manage iptable rules for the private interface on DigitalOcean droplets.
• foreman-digitalocean – Plugin to enable management of DigitalOcean droplets in Foreman.
• lita-digitalocean – Lita handler for managing DigitalOcean services.
• hostpool – Worker pool manager for DigitalOcean hosts.
• DDNS – Personal DDNS client with DigitalOcean Networking DNS as backend.
• Less Confusing Menus – A Chrome extension that makes account menus less confusing.
• DigitalOcean Droplet creator – A dialog-based shell script to quickly create a single DigitalOcean Droplet.
• do-upgrade-plans – A script to upgrade your DigitalOcean Droplets to better plans with the same cost.

Clients

• doctl – Command-line tool for DigitalOcean services.
• digitalocean-indicator – Debian Gnome panel client.
• domanager – Linux and Windows System Tray Client.
• OceanBar – macOS menu bar client.
• Tugboat – Ruby command-line tool for DigitalOcean services, focusing on a more guided UX.

Video tutorials

• Building a Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean using Kubicorn

Other

• Reddit community
• ##digitalocean on freenode
• Engineering Code of Conduct
• User Scripts – User data scripts to help provision apps on a Droplet.
• Hacktoberfest – Month-long celebration of open source software in partnership with GitHub.