digitalocean - Grant Winney

8 Results tagged on "digitalocean":

Dec 27, 2019

3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄

Running through another of Erika's Ansible posts with example playbooks, creating a few pointless ones of my own, and discovering just how easy it is to deploy a website running on Apache!...

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Dec 18, 2019

Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

Today I'm wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs... the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!...

github reflection digitalocean

Oct 31, 2019

Hacktoberfest 2019 🎃🖱

It's the end of October and yet another Hacktoberfest. I don't even care about the prizes, which leaves me wondering, why do I even bother? I can think of a few reasons... and they're not all as altruistic as I'd like....

wiki github digitalocean

Oct 29, 2018

Hosting a GitHub wiki on Ubuntu (and keeping it in sync)

I've always been a fan of wikis, but GitHub's is so poorly designed it doesn't get much love. I once wrote about cloning a wiki locally and editing it using Gollum, but now I'm taking a look at hosting it externally on DigitalOcean, using Gollum and keeping it in sync with the repo hosted on GitHub....

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Mar 31, 2018

Creating your own secure, personal wiki using DigitalOcean and DokuWiki

I've been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to setup a wiki. I wanted something light-weight, with support for uploading images and files. And I wanted to retain control over the data and configuration, as well as encrypt access to it. Here's how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean....

hacktoberfest oss digitalocean github

Oct 23, 2017

Hacktoberfest 2017

Is it silly that a t-shirt and some stickers motivates thousands of developers to contribute to OSS during Hacktoberfest? Hey, the stickers are cool and the shirt's comfortable! Anyway, I'm not ashamed to admit it's worked on me for the third year in a row. :)...

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Oct 21, 2016

What is Hacktoberfest and How Can You Participate?

There are 10 days left in October. 10 days to earn a t-shirt in the third annual Hacktoberfest, when DigitalOcean...

digitalocean hacktoberfest github oss

Nov 12, 2015

HacktoberFest, and Making My First OSS Contributions

All last month, DigitalOcean carried out an event called HacktoberFest. Developers love them some swag! And we’re pretty much suckers for any kind of prize if it means proudly lording it over our fellow developers for a little while. In hopes of inspiring each other, of course. ;)...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.