DigitalOcean Marketplace
96 points by mostafah 6 years ago | 38 comments- gramakri 6 years agoCongrats DO team, very excited about this launch!
We (https://cloudron.io) submitted our image last month and it was tested and approved in a few days. Loved the fact that the DO team is so agile and the dev process to get ourselves listed was fairly trivial as well.
If someone has questions about how to create these 1-click images or the approval process, I am happy to answer them from a vendor point of view.
- smeeg 6 years ago+1 here, great experience working with the DO team. Super easy and responsive.
- smeeg 6 years ago
- arikfr 6 years agoHappy to see this out and public!
We (Redash) had public AMIs for AWS and GCP for a long time now. But recently started the process of creating a proper marketplace listing with them and DigitalOcean. Needless to say that we're still working on the AWS and GCP listing, while the DigitalOcean one is already live. As with everything, they created a simple and nice experience for the vendors.
- ranbena 6 years agoRedash + DigitalOcean ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
- ranbena 6 years ago
- heavymark 6 years agoI'm confused for years there have been a large collection of 1-click options when logged in. It says here WordPress for instance is New but that has been there forever. Can someone explain how Marketplace currently is different than the 1 click options we have long already have? The main issue has been with WordPress which I imagine is your most popular 1 click option is that it runs on LAMP rather than LEMP (the more modern recommended option). Does this "new" version resolve that? Or am I missing something?
- eddiezane 6 years agoCross posting a colleague's reply on the blog post [0].
> We’ve had a WordPress stack at DigitalOcean for a long time and it’s tremendously popular – and now we've opened our platform up so partners can bring their 1-Click Apps to all our users through the Marketplace. Openlitespeed has a new WordPress stack too, and we’re also happy to have ideas for changes and new things on ideas.digitalocean.com
0: https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-digitalocean-marke...
- pbreit 6 years agoThey deprecated a bunch of one-click apps: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/marketplace/deprecated/
This looks like the next iteration of the concept.
- the_common_man 6 years agoThis is like aws marketplace where vendors can make images instead of digital ocean making images
- heavymark 6 years agoThat what I was thinking, but they feature ones created by DO there and even label as new for instance for WordPress, so was wondering what was new about the WordPress one click option for instance since already exists.
- heavymark 6 years ago
- unethical_ban 6 years agoI assume the difference is that people will be able to delf-deploy their apps to the marketplace. Think of it as an analog to "PPAs" for Ubuntu repositories.
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- eddiezane 6 years agoEddie from the DigitalOcean DevRel team here. We're looking to partner with all the folks to help support and deliver open source and vendor software easily. Here to answer what I can.
- breakingcups 6 years agoThe only true benefit turnkey 1-click software truly offers me is not having to worry about configuration and backups, but ironically I always find myself too worried about backups or data integrity to use these types of platforms.
Do you have or are you planning to have a centralized way for these apps to perform and restore backups or is that handled by each partner themselves?
- eddiezane 6 years agoAll of these images are deployed directly onto a Droplet which has access to all standard features including backups [0].
0: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/backups/overview/
- the_common_man 6 years agoSee cloudron (which is funnily a 1-click in DO) which solves this
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- Existenceblinks 6 years agoA decent droplet is capable of doing a lot of things, the one-click install seems to be per droplet. I'm not so sure how multiple on-clicks apps work in one droplet, or can it work at all (how to avoid conflicts of automation of multiple robots?)
- wmf 6 years agoLooks like everything is free so far and the paid options are coming later?
- eddiezane 6 years agoPlease see my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312226
TLDR: Vendors can add licenses now. Billing coming later.
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- the_common_man 6 years agoOn Firefox, the details button does not do anything. I.e create droplet -> images -> marketplace -> app details
- eddiezane 6 years agoThanks for reporting. Have the team looking at it now.
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- throwaway12iii 6 years agoWhich developers of Free and Open Source projects do you sponsor?
- eddiezane 6 years agoWe have a list of some of the larger projects we support here https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- breakingcups 6 years ago
- akamor 6 years agoEddie, I think it would be neat if we could build vendor images by just supplying docker containers with maybe some type of config.
At Tonic (https://tonic.ai) we do on-prem deploys with docker containers and docker-compose. Its seamless and would be great to use that same flow for Digital Ocean marketplace.
- arikfr 6 years agoWe (Redash) have a similar setup (Docker Compose based) and we used Packer to build the DigitalOcean image. Our setup is public on GitHub, in case you want to copy:
- akamor 6 years agoThats awesome. Thanks a lot, arikfr.
- akamor 6 years ago
- eddiezane 6 years agoWe have some vendors building images with a variety of methods—Packer for example (blog post coming soon). I _want_ to say there is someone building out of a container. We've got a repo [0] with our current process but definitely looking for ways to improve it. You should fill out the vendor form and we'll be in touch [1]!
- arikfr 6 years ago
- codeaken 6 years agoCan you as a vendor charge for your images or do you need to publish your work free of charge?
- eddiezane 6 years agoAs a vendor you can add a license / subscription for your stack in your 1-Click App image. Some vendors –such as Plesk and cPanel– are already doing this today. We plan to make this easier for both you and your users this year with direct billing.
- mrclark411 6 years agoAnd if you can charge - what are the terms?
- eddiezane 6 years ago
- gorkemcetin 6 years agoThat was a great move and congrats DO team! We (Countly, https://count.ly) have approach Digital Ocean a few months ago, and we had a very productive email exchange - after a few days, our product was on DO Marketplace.
- vbtechguy 6 years agonice just needs more centos compatibility https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2983
- dirtylowprofile 6 years agoI have an existing GitLab hosted on DO, what are the chances of migrating to Enterprise Edition?
- intellix 6 years agoWould love a one click option that creates a VPN that works in China and Netflix
- rahimnathwani 6 years agoMight be hard to find, as Netflix blocks the IP address ranges of major cloud providers, presumably including DigitalOcean.
- rahimnathwani 6 years ago