Learning Resources: Digital Ocean
Tags: beginners, cloud, devops, discuss
Published: 2023-05-26 10:44:01

## Preface

Have you ever gone on a “Google search” session only to discover that the results are primarily third-party information that may or may not be accurate? I certainly did, therefore we at Krunch decided to create these series exposing some lesser-known official resources for different technologies.

> "Do not confuse my Google skills with yours."

Now I get it, Google searching is a skill in itself, you might be able to find the information that you want easily, however, I would still be happy to shed some exposure on the official content with short from blogs, leave a comment and let's have a discussion.

## Digital Ocean - "Simpler" Cloud Provider

![Cloud is someone else's computer](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/iwkitqh3zu6mw6pmdr2a.png)

Digital Ocean is a cloud provider that makes it simpler to deploy your next SaaS, website or e-commerce application. Digital Ocean might not be as big as giants like AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, however, it still takes its own fair place in the top rankings when it comes to reliable cloud providers. Personally, I find Digital Ocean to have a more straightforward pricing and provide a better developer experience, especially if you are just starting out with the cloud. Digital Ocean provides a great user interface when it comes to the setting up infrastructure while also enabling ability to create resources via CLI and declarative configurations for more experienced users.

### Digital Ocean Community Tutorials
Digital Ocean has a godsend documentation many of us are familiar with, not only they provide many detailed introductory tutorials for their services like this [curriculum on getting started with cloud](https://kdta.io/loMIf), but also certain guides on different technologies that are not related to digital ocean like this [guide](https://kdta.io/G1JEi) on using `text/template` in golang. However, what is not so know is their Youtube channel.

### Digital Ocean Youtube Channel
Often overlooked, Digital Ocean's youtube channel is a great resource for learning cloud. They regularly post, tutorials, guides, news and conference talks which could teach you the cloud and showcase their products with a more interactive approach compared to official documentation. For example following video is a good beginner friendly [video tutorial on kubernetes](https://kdta.io/YM2SP):

{% embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4lp6wtS--4 %}     

While providing excellent content for beginners Digital Ocean's videos have more advanced content too. On the same topic of kubernetes, [following video](https://kdta.io/i6odG) showcases how to bootstrap kubernetes cluster with the integration of Terraform and Argo CD:

{% embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_4Qj3z6EDQ %}

Of course there are much content than just kubernetes, for example if you are interested in "serverless" movement, the [video below](https://kdta.io/Vgitk) showcases Digital Ocean's offerings in the sphere:

{% embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhavIhqTI6o %}

These are only few examples of the great tutorial videos provided by Digital Ocean, feel free to explore further.

### Digital Ocean Community
Special mention goes to Digital Ocean's Q&A forum where developers are free to ask any questions related to the services provided by them and more. Check out the link in [resources section](#resources) of this blog.

## Resources
Digital Ocean Community Tutorials - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials
Digital Ocean Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalOcean
Digital Ocean Q&A - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions

[*From Krunch Team*](https://kdta.io/urngR)