Deploying to Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean is a cloud service provider that offers competitive prices to host virtual machines. It makes deploying and serving Docker images very easy. In this section, we are going to deploy a droplet (Digital Ocean's terminology for a single machine) that runs our dockerized Vault service in the cloud.

Specifically, following are the steps to deploy Docker images to Digital Ocean:

  1. Create a droplet.
  2. Gain access to it via a web-based console.
  3. Pull our USERNAME/vault container.
  4. Run the container.
  5. Access our hosted Vault service remotely via the curl command.

Digital Ocean is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture, and as such, the user experience is likely to change from time to time, so the exact flow described here ...

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