3 inspiring apps from the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon
A few of my favorite submissions from DigitalOcean's App Platform hackathon, that hold real promise for bringing people together!
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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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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!
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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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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.
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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 [https://hacktoberfest.
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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. ;)
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