DigitalOcean Droplet initialization

do-droplet-init.sh

# execute this script by running the following command as root on your droplet
# bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/felixfischer/8f27e053e8d551e4f417/raw/do-droplet-init.sh)"

echo -e "\n--> Fixing locale warnings\n"
locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8

echo -e "\n--> Updating the system\n"
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade

echo -e "\n--> Installing Docker\n"
curl -s https://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sh

echo -e "\n--> Creating Swap File\n"
fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
ls -lh /swapfile # check that it is there

echo -e "\n--> Make /swapfile a Swap File\n"
mkswap /swapfile

echo -e "\n--> Activate Swap File\n"
swapon /swapfile
swapon -s # show active swap files to check that it worked

echo -e "\n--> Make Swap File permanent\n"
echo "/swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0" >> /etc/fstab
tail /etc/fstab -n 3 # show last 3 lines of /etc/fstab for verification

echo -e "\n--> Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive to avoid error messages"
echo "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" >> /etc/profile
tail /etc/profile -n 3 # show last 3 lines of /etc/profile for verification

echo -e "--> PLEASE REBOOT NOW"