Simplify Deployment: Setting Up CTO.ai with Your DigitalOcean Account

by Tola Ore-Aruwaji

As an official DigitalOcean partner, CTO.ai's easy and simple integration with DigitalOcean can enhance your deployment workflows, making them more efficient and reliable. CTO.ai is a CI/CD platform designed for simplicity and ease of use, ideal for teams looking to automate their development processes. This guide will walk you through setting it up with your DigitalOcean account.

By using CTO.ai's capabilities with DigitalOcean's cloud infrastructure, you can automate your software delivery process, from code commits to deployment, enhancing productivity and reducing manual errors.

Prerequisites

Installation

The DigitalOcean Workflow is open source on GitHub, and you can install it by cloning the repository.

git clone git@github.com:workflows-sh/do-k8s-cdktf.git

cd do-k8s-cdktf

Sign up on DigitalOcean

Create API and SPACES Keys

  • In your DigitalOcean dashboard, create your API and SPACES keys for your workflow setup by selecting API on your DigitalOcean dashboard. For the DigitalOcean workflow, we will be creating the DigitalOcean Token from the API, the Terraform Token from Terraform workspace, the Digital Spaces Access and Secret key from the Spaces Token in DigitalOcean, and the GitHub Token from GitHub.
  • DO_TOKEN
  • DO_SPACES_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • DO_SPACES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  • TFC_TOKEN
  • GITHUB_TOKEN

CTO.ai will use these API keys to authenticate, request, and create your DigitalOcean Workflow.

  • In the Personal Access Tokens area, click on Generate New Token and create your DigitalOcean access token (DO_TOKEN).
  • In your Spaces access keys section, create your DO_SPACES_ACCESS_KEY_ID. When you create your DO_SPACES ACCESS_KEY_ID, it will generate your spaces' access key and secret key.

Create an account on Terraform Cloud

  • Select API tokens and generate an API Token for your Terraform workspace.

Create Token from GitHub

Next, create your GitHub token in your developer settings on GitHub and give it admin permissions.

Add Tokens to CTO.ai

Next, add the tokens you created from DigitalOcean and Terraform Cloud to your secrets on CTO.ai. On your CTO.ai dashboard, select Settings, click on Secrets, and add all the secrets you created with the value.

Configs

You can pass and add different environment variables, database URLs, and other credentials for your workflow in the configs section on the CTO.ai dashboard. See the ops.yml file below to learn how to configure your DigitalOcean workflow.

Next, run and setup your infrastructure using ops build .

Creating an Ops.yml File for CTO.ai

In your GitHub repo or project directory, create an ops.yml file, which defines the CI/CD workflow.

version: "1"
pipelines:
  - name: simple-pipeline
    description: Simple Docker build and push to DigitalOcean Container Registry
    env:
      secrets:
        - GITHUB_TOKEN
        - DO_TOKEN
    events:
      - "github:my-org/my-repo:pull_request.opened"
      - "github:my-org/my-repo:pull_request.merged"
    jobs:
      - name: simple-build
        description: Basic build and push job
        steps:
          - git clone https://oauth2:$GITHUB_TOKEN@github.com/my-org/my-repo
          - cd my-repo
          - docker build -f Dockerfile -t my-app:latest .
          - docker tag my-app:latest registry.digitalocean.com/my-org/my-app:latest
          - docker push registry.digitalocean.com/my-org/my-app:latest

This configuration handles the build and deployment process, including running tests and deploying to DigitalOcean via CTO.ai workflows.

Activating the Workflow

  • Every new push, pull request open, or pull request merged to your repository will trigger the CTO.ai workflow.
  • The defined steps in ops.yml will be executed, resulting in the deployment of your application to DigitalOcean.

Conclusion

Setting up CTO.ai with DigitalOcean simplifies your deployment processes, enabling a more efficient and error-free operation.

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