RESTful and HTTP APIs in Pyramid Transcripts
Chapter: Deploying your REST service to DigitalOcean on Ubuntu
Lecture: DigitalOcean overview
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Here we are on Digital Ocean, you've maybe heard of Digital Ocean, I am a huge fan of what those guys are doing,
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you probably heard of things like aws and azure, but I'm here to tell you for simpler, not extremely complicated web applications
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that have to dig into all of these cloud apis, this is a better place to be;
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it really is better performance and much, much cheaper, and really just simpler. We're going to use Digital Ocean to go create this Linux server.
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Now, let's click really quickly on pricing, just so you guys see like what it is we're going to create,
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so the pricing is really nice here, we're going to use a standard droplet and pay, we can get hourly price if we want,
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but really monthly is a better human term to think about what is it going to cost us, they also have like high memory ones, and whatnot,
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but we're just going to focus down on these standard ones. So we're going to use a five dollar server, and you'll see that this five dollar server
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will run our api for many, many requests, I'm pretty sure we could get millions of requests per month for five dollars.
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And just to indicate like what a good deal this is, last time I checked the pricing for just bandwidth alone at aws was nine cents per gigabyte,
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notice you get a terabyte of bandwidth here, so 0.09 times that many gigabytes, that's 92 dollars a month
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just in bandwidth value that you get with his thing, not to mention you get ssds and all sorts of goodies.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to go create one of these, now, I have already created an account, so logged in here
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you can see my various servers that I used to run the Talk Python and Python Bytes stuff and we're going to go and create a new droplet,
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so let's go down here and and show you what you get so we can come down, we can pick a variety of different Linux distributions,
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and pick different versions as well, so let's just go with this one, the standard long term support Ubuntu, there's not a real great reason
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to choose a different one, I will just point out though that you can go if you want to and get it kind of pre configured, like from my Mongodb server
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I just went down here and said I want Mongodb running on that version of Ubuntu
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and boom, it already comes preconfigured, somewhat secure, things like that. But we're not using Mongo, so we'll use this
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and pick this size, you'll see that that's plenty good we don't need block storage right now
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we could get a different data center so I'm on the west coast of the US so I'll pick something in San Francisco
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and then we just have to create an ssh key, we click go, give it a name, and let's call this auto service server something like that
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it seems like a decent name, we can have a bunch, I don't want a bunch, I want one, and we'll get going.
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So, that's how it will work, we're going to need to do things like create an ssh key,
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so that we can log in and not have to worry about passwords, and things like that, but we'll do that in just a moment, right.
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So Digital Ocean basically lets us create these servers and then we can go over to the networking section which we'll do afterwards
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and we can basically get it's called a floating ip address, and what that means is there an ip address that kind of
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we control independent of the machine and we can map our domain to that and then we can do things like hey I need to upgrade the server
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I could move it over to a temporary fail over server if for some reason I want to just create a new version after six months
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on a new implementation of Linux or whatever I could spin that up and get it exactly ready
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and then I could just instantly flip the switch, and it will flip to that new server. So it gives you a little bit of machine independence,
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with this networking section, so we're going to do that next, but first, in order to create this, we're going to create an ssh key.