Building an Enterprise-Ready eCommerce Site in Under an Hour With DigitalOcean

What’s a simple way to set up and optimize an eCommerce site that’s hosted on DigitalOcean? Let's explore how to use DigitalOcean and Magento, a free open source eCommerce platform, to build and grow a unique online store from the ground up. Within 60 minutes, we take a One-Click Image from DigitalOcean’s Marketplace, and demonstrate how to dramatically enhance it with DigitalOcean’s managed services to build an enterprise-ready eCommerce site.

What You’ll Learn

How to image and redeploy a Droplet
How to migrate a database to DigitalOcean DBaaS
How to use a Load Balancer with multiple Droplets

This Talk is Designed For DevOps engineers, junior to intermediate sysadmins, individuals with a moderate understanding of databases, web servers, and server administration

Agenda
0:00 Intro
0:38 Getting started in the cloud panel
1:20 Configuring the one click image
6:58 Configuring the database as a media store
08:43 Setting up DBaaS
17:52 Setting up Load Balancer
20:15 Adding additional web server
26:19 Diagrams and extensibility
29:03 SSL/Cloudflare
29:28 Final thoughts
31:03 Q&A

About the Presenter

Austin Black, Solutions Engineer at DigitalOcean. Austin has a wide variety of technical expertise in software development, information security, and disaster recovery. He loves finding creative solutions to complex problems.

Resources

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/building-an-enterprise-ready-ecommerce-site-in-under-an-hour-with-digitalocean

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