Digital Ocean Installation
Since LiquidFiles v3.4.9 the VirtIO drivers has been added in to the vmdk image. This allows upload the LF vmdk image to Digital Ocean cloud and create a Droplet from it directly.
Installation
This guides assumes that you've already signed up to DigitalOcean cloud. If you haven't signed up please see: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ for more information and instructions how to sign up to DigitalOcean.
To start the installation of LiquidFiles, please go to the
LiquidFiles Download page and
download latest LF vmdk image.
Unzip the LiquidFiles-disk1.vmdk disk from the zip
file to a local drive.
1) Image Upload
In your DigiatlOcean portal click on Upload Image under Images → Custom Images tab and pick up the unzipped vmdk drive.
When asked, select Ubuntu as the distribution and datacenter in a region you prefer the image should be uploaded.
2) Create Droplet
When the image is completely uploaded, click on Start a Droplet under the More tab in the Custom images settings.
Choose a plan for your LF droplet. You should select at least Standard plan with 1CPU, 2GB RAM and 50GB drive
Select a datacenter region where the droplet will be running.
To be able save and create the droplet it's required to assign some SSH key. In Authentication section create a new or select an existing SSH key from your list.
When all was set click on the Create Droplet button.
After several minutes the droplet will be created with assigned public IP address.
Please type the assigned IP address in your browser. When the LiquidFiles web server is up and running continue with the configuration on the Getting Started page.