Tech stack

  • Digital Ocean Droplet
  • Ubuntu
  • Caddy
  • rsync

Setting up a Python project on an Ubuntu Digital Ocean Droplet using pipenv

  1. Create Droplet with ssh key authentication
  2. Save ssh key to 1password
  3. Update your ssh config file
  4. Download the package index from repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d
    • sudo apt update
  5. Install Packages from APT
    • sudo apt install -y python3-pip pipenv git debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https
  6. Downloads the GPG key from Cloudsmith’s Caddy repository and adds it to your system’s trusted keyring
    • curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key' | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
  7. Add the Caddy repository to your system’s list of package source
    • curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list
  8. Install Caddy
    • sudo apt install caddy
  9. Install pipenv
    • pip3 install pipenv
  10. Setup Caddyfile at /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    • Example: 
       lobbyingintoronto.com {
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:5000
encode zstd gzip
tls {
  protocols http/1.1 http/2 http/3
  }
}
  11. Create a systemd service file
  12. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  13. sudo systemctl restart your.service
  14. systemctl status your.service

caddy validate –config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile caddy fmt –overwrite /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

If you want to enable the service to start automatically at boot, run: sudo systemctl enable TorontoLobbyistRegistry

Remeber to Enable Monitoring with creating the droplet