da-projekt-do-deploy

Example of DigitalOcean deployment for Czechitas DA: Projekt

How to create environment using Terraform

Prepare your DigitalOcean account

1. Sign-up
2. Create an API token: Account -> API -> Tokens/Keys -> Generate New Token
3. Create an SSH key: Account -> Settings -> Security -> Add SSH Key. This key will be used to authenticate SSH connection to the server. You will need name of this key later.

Install and configure Terraform

1. Install Terraform
2. Install SSH agent and import your SSH key to it. It must be running when you execute terraform apply. Terraform will establish SSH connection to the new server, and it doesn't support password protected SSH keys. So we need SSH agent.
3. Switch to ./terraform directory
4. Run terraform init - this will initialize local state storage.
5. Create terraform.tfvars file with content like:

   do_token = "YOUR_DIGITALOCEAN_API_TOKEN"
   ssh_key_name = "NAME_OF_THE_SSH_KEY_IN_DIGITALOCEAN"
   

6. Run terraform plan to review all the resources that will be created.
7. Run terraform apply - all the resources will be created.
8. Run terraform destroy to destroy all the created resources.