Deploy Portainer Droplet on Digital Ocean

README.md

Portainer Droplet on Digital Ocean:

1. In the Digital Ocean portal, go to the project view.
2. Click New Droplet.
3. Click Create Droplet.
4. Click the Marketplace tab.
5. Click Docker.
6. Choose a plan. Make sure your Droplet has the minimum hardware requirements for Docker.
7. Choose any options for backups, block storage, and datacenter region.
8. Optional: In the Select additional options section, you can check the User data box and enter a cloud-config file in the text box that appears. The cloud-config file is used to provide a script to be run on the first boot. An example is below.
9. Choose an SSH key that you have access to, or generate a new SSH key.
10. Choose your project.
11. Click Create.

Below is an example cloud-config file that you can use to initialize the Droplet with user data, such as deploying Waypoint:

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cloud-config.sh

#!/bin/bash

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/socheatsok78/wait-for-docker/master/install.sh | /bin/bash -s
wait-for-docker

docker pull portainer/portainer-ce
docker volume create portainer_data

docker run -d \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  --name=portainer \
  --restart=always \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v portainer_data:/data \
  portainer/portainer-ce
  
echo "\nPortainer is ready on port 9000"