Digital Ocean (DO)

In this section we discuss about using Digital Ocean (DO) as a secure cloud services platform for implementation of the Intelehealth platform. Digital Ocean helps create droplets which are easy to use, customizable, scalable and easy to deploy with maintenance made easier. In case you don’t have an account, you could create an account here .

The steps for creating an instance are as follows:

1. On the homepage dashboard, after logging in, click ‘Create’ and choose a droplet.

2. Choose an image here, based on the multiple options available. You can restore from a backed up image as well. For our purpose, we use Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 version.

3. Choose the size of the droplet: “Standard Droplets” work fine and are recommended.

4. You can choose to customize the way back-ups are created in the “Add back-up” step. Block storage can be added if needed.

5. Choose a data center region (close to where the data is being hosted)

6. Select additional options based on the options provided such as IP6, monitoring, User Data, Private Monitoring (if needed).

7. Add the SSH keys to this instance, and save a copy.

8. Review all the information and click on ‘Finalize and Create’

9. When the setup is 100% complete, the IP address of your Droplet will be displayed.

10. When the progress bar reaches 100% and the IP address is displayed, you’re ready to log in to your Droplet. To go to a Droplet’s detail page where you can make changes, click its name or go straight to the task you want using the More menu.

Note:

1. Create an alert on Digital Ocean for memory utilization (under Monitoring Tab). This will send an alert email to all the respective email id's about CPU running high.

2. For any further changes to the droplet, you can read this section on the Digital ocean website.

With this, an instance of the server on Digital ocean is created.