Setting Digital Ocean environment variables

Are you trying to work out how to setup environment variables for your Digital Ocean droplet or app running on the app platform? Here’s how. Digital Ocean droplet environment variables Setting an environment variable for a droplet is a little more complicated than for an app running on the app platform. Follow these steps to set environment variables on a Linux droplet: SSH into your droplet. If you’re not sure how to do that, see here Once connected, run the following command to set your environment variable: 1 export YOUR_VARIABLE_KEY=<your-variable-value> App platform environment variables To set environment variables for an app running on Digital Ocean’s app platform, follow these steps:...

January 28, 2021 · 1 min

How to create an Azure app service with a database

Need to deploy your app to an Azure app service, and rely on a database such as Postgres or Azure SQL? Microsoft is now previewing a new blade in the Azure portal that lets you quickly spin up an Azure app service with an associated database. Supported database engines for the preview are Postgres or serverless Azure SQL server. To get started using the new blade, click here or search the Azure Marketplace for “web app database”....

January 27, 2021 · 1 min