DigitalOcean

There are a couple of house keeping steps to take before deploying to DigitalOcean. You can read more about the steps here.

Note

Be sure you have the official DigitalOcean GitHub App installed in your GitHub account. It is recommended to only allow the app to access the repositories you want to deploy.

Meaning, once your project has been scaffolded with this cookiecutter, you’ll have to push it to GitHub for it to be available to DigitalOcean.

Once the prerequisites are met:

Provision the app using the provided script bin/provision-app.sh.

$ ./bin/provision-app.sh

This creates app based on the spec file digitalocean.yaml at the root of the project. The services will get created, but will fail deployment, which is expected. They fail because we’ve deployed the app from the CLI without any of the environment variables.

Ensure the following variables are in the Apps Environment Variables, and in your GitHub repository secrets:

• POSTGRES_USER

• POSTGRES_PASSWORD

• POSTGRES_DB

• POSTGRES_HOST

• POSTGRES_PORT

Note

The environment variables are injected into the deploy-app step in the GitHub Actions workflow.

Once saved, the deployment for the app will get re-triggered, and the services will be deployed successfully. Now, any merges into your main branch will trigger a deployment.