DigitalOcean

What

• IaaS alternative to Amazon EC2
• Only provide compute resources
• No Windows developers allowed

WhY

• Improve the developer experience
• Lower cost structure
• Higher performance

HOW

• Simplicity in all phases
• Only provide computing resources 
• Only support Linux
• Limited machine types
• Monthly or hourly pricing

HOW

"The services they provide are quite basic – you get VPS’s in the cloud and DNS management, that’s all. No fancy load balancing, hosted databases, hadoop clusters, etc. Compared to AWS, for example this could be seen as a disadvantage, but don’t judge just yet.”

OCHRONUS (reviewer)

HOW

HOW

• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Debian
• CentOS
• CoreOS
• FreeBSD

HOW

HOW

HOW

provider "digitalocean" {
    token = "${var.do_token}"
}

# Create a new SSH key
resource "digitalocean_ssh_key" "default" {
    name = "Terraform Example"
    public_key = "${file( ".ssh/id_rsa.pub" )}"
}

# Create a new droplet to run Docker
resource "digitalocean_droplet" "docker" {
    image = "${var.do_image}"
    name = "docker"
    region = "${var.do_region}"
    size = "${var.do_size}"
    backups = false 
    ipv6 = false 
    private_networking = false 
    ssh_keys = ["${digitalocean_ssh_key.default.id}"]
}

​Terraform Script

summary

• No frills
• Self-service for most everything
• Inexpensive
• Droplets can be moved to other regions
• Some network isolation is available
• Good for always on services -- elastic demand not supported
• Easy to understand cost structure
• Hybrid solutions integrating with AWS should be possible