The DigitalOcean Newsletter: January 28, 2021

The DigitalOcean Newsletter

Read on for a monthly recap of all things DigitalOcean, including product updates, new tutorials, upcoming events, and more.

Product Updates

Deploy code from GitLab repositories
Similar to GitHub, you can now deploy code from your GitLab.com repositories. Just point DigitalOcean App Platform to your repo and follow a few simple steps to launch your app. Check out the docs and deploy this sample app to see the GitLab support in action.
Bring your own container image (BYOCI)
We are excited to introduce the 'Bring Your Own Container Image' (BYOCI) feature that enables you to deploy pre-built container images with App Platform. This means that if your app is already containerized, you can deploy it using App Platform, irrespective of how it's built. App Platform integrates with DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR), so to deploy your container images with App Platform, you first need to push them to the DOCR.
Marketplace updates
We launched many preconfigured 1-Click Apps in the DigitalOcean Marketplace to help you save time and remove the hassle of provisioning servers.
- moodle: The world's most popular learning management system. As the leading open source learning platform it is designed to provide learners, educators, and administrators with a single robust, secure and integrated solution to create personalised learning environments.
- CAST AI Kubernetes 1.18: Provides the necessary tools to initialize or join CAST AI managed multi-cloud kubernetes cluster.
- HAProxy-WI: HAProxy-WI is a user-friendly web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx and Keepalived servers.

See more updates in the latest products and features blog post.

New Blog Posts

Check out how you can use DigitalOcean App Platform to build your startup. App Platform can not only help you with building, deploying, and scaling your SaaS apps but also with marketing websites, blogs, and internal tooling.
With some of our recent adjustments to our Droplet portfolio, including the addition of Storage-Optimized Droplets with NVMe SSD, check out our up-to-date guidance on how to match your Droplet plan to your use case.

New Tutorials

DigitalOcean's Quick Start Tutorials Playlist on YouTube saves you time by teaching you only what you need to know. From cleaning up your Droplets to spinning up a Minecraft server on DigitalOcean, these bite size tutorials get straight to the point so that you can get straight back to building.
Looking to build your own link landing page to collect your repos, social media profiles, and blog posts? Follow along with Erika Heidi's series on How To Build a Links Landing Page in PHP with Laravel and Docker Compose.
If you or someone you know is just starting out with WordPress, get the information you need to be successful with Lyn Muldrow's series Getting Started with WordPress.
Mason Egger walks you through a Pythonic App Platform project in his tutorial How To Deploy a Flask App Using Gunicorn to App Platform.

Have you considered writing a tutorial that will help others in the developer community? Check out our Suggested Topics for Tutorials to see what our Editorial team is looking for!

Tech Talks

Upcoming

Build a Fullstack App With Strapi and Next.js
February 10, 11:00 a.m. ET
Build an API and frontend in less than an hour using Strapi as your backend and Next.js as your frontend.
Getting Started With Laravel Livewire
February 24, 11:00 a.m. ET
Get to know Laravel Livewire so you can make your Laravel frontends more dynamic.

Watch the Recording

Getting Started With Next.js
Learn why so many React developers are switching to using Next.js, an open source framework that helps you build production-grade React applications that scale.
Top 10 Tips for Protecting Yourself and Your Data
No matter how strong your security may be, humans will be the primary attacking point. Learn how to protect yourself, and by extension, your systems. Sharpen your awareness of social engineering techniques and how attackers gain access to systems.

Subscribe to the 'Tech Talks' tag within our Community platform to get alerts on the latest talks from our team and the greater community. You're also invited to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Inside DigitalOcean

Ever had a question for a DigitalOcean Developer Advocate after watching one of our tutorials? If so, you're not alone. Our developers are answering questions directly from the YouTube community from some of their most popular videos.

In this episode, Developer Advocate Chris Sevilleja braves the comment section from his beginner Laravel tutorials…wish him luck!