Hosting for data pipeline development Digital Ocean doctl — command line tool for provisioning Digital Ocean droplets Secure backup a Linux volume over a network Backup: dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 - | ssh user@hostname dd of=sda.img.gz Restore: ssh user@hostname dd if=sda.img.gz | gunzip -1 - | dd of=/mnt/sda.img Test: fdisk ./sda.img returns block size and start of each partition Make mount point: mkdir /mnt/partname Calc offset: start * blocksize. E.g. 2048*512 = 1048576 Mount: mount -o loop, offset=OFFSET hda.img /mnt/partname Ready to use at /mnt/partname Provision checklist create droplet with SSH key (not root login) create SSH Public Key for user Configuration checklist create a username on new droplet give publc keys to study group members Platforms Digital Ocean Droplets Google Data Studio AWS