Infrastructure as a Newsletter: February 2, 2023

Fresh Off the Press

Hand-selected picks from our blog and growing library of tutorials.

Last week, we launched the DigitalOcean Developer Center. The DigitalOcean Developer Center provides a curated experience for developers wishing to learn best practices on utilizing the DigitalOcean platform to build their infrastructure, apps, and scale!

As part of the launch, we have created a brand new onboarding experience that walks you through step by step on getting started with DigitalOcean, with much more content coming soon.

Rust, also known as rust-lang, is a powerful general-purpose programming language. Syntactically similar to C++, Rust can be used for a wide range of software development projects, including browser components, game engines, and operating systems.

In this tutorial, you’ll install the latest version of Rust on Ubuntu 20.04 and then create, compile, and run a test program. 

Supabase is a backend-as-a-service platform built around the Postgres database and is an open-source alternative to Firebase.  It can reduce time to market by providing a ready-to-use backend that includes a database with real-time capabilities, authentication, object storage, and edge functions.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to self-host Supabase in the cloud using Docker Compose and DigitalOcean components. 

Mastodon is free and open-source software that provides instant global communication. Each Mastodon server is entirely independent while communicating with other servers to form a social network. It can be deployed by anyone on any server, with each server being its own instance with its own policies and moderation. 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to spin up a DigitalOcean Droplet with Mastodon pre-installed using the DigitalOcean Mastodon 1-Click App.

Open Source News

Interesting news from across the internet about open-source topics.

Learn about Hermes, Hashicorp’s new open-source document management system, which helps streamline writing and document processes.

Automerge is a network-agnostic library of data structures used for building collaborative applications. With the release of Automerge 2.0 comes huge improvements, including both JavaScript and Rust support, as well as improved documentation and support options for production users.

Futurecoder is a free and open-source interactive and accessible learning platform for complete beginners to start teaching themselves programming in Python. Check out this demo for a complete overview of the features, and start learning on your own.

Helpful Resources & Tools

Handy tools and interesting resources we’re talking about at DigitalOcean.

With many cloud-native solutions popping up daily, it can be pretty daunting for engineers and organizations to choose the “right” tools to build their tech. It becomes all the more challenging to integrate them to get to day-2 operations ready in Kubernetes.

The k8s-bootstrapper project is a customizable and extendable framework that aims to solve this problem by leveraging Terraform and Argo CD.

This is a quick start guide to set up a Mastodon instance running on DigitalOcean Kubernetes. It starts with a high-level overview of Mastodon and all involved components. Then, you will be guided through the initial installation and configuration steps. Finally, you should be able to see your final Mastodon instance alive and kicking and also evaluate its performance under heavy load.