At the end of our latest DevOps training, we chose to implement a dedicated solution for smart homes based on proprietary hardware and DigitalOcean cloud as our final project.

We created a terraforming project that deploys the whole solution for a dedicated control set of servers/services to allow remote control of Teco PLC of a given serial number using DigitalOcean cloud CLI (command line interface) library.

The solution consists of block volume storage (to prevent data loss), several virtual machines, dedicated containers with redis, Nginx, MariaDB, and 3rd party repositories with custom code to manage the PLC via web UI.

The whole magic is done with one command, so all you need is a DigitalOcean account with a DO token, volume block storage created, and Terraform installed locally.

Then, there is just one command: terraform apply (with the terraform plan). The build then takes approx. 10 minutes, after which you obtain the public IP address of the control machine, where the web UI runs.

What about the future?

Recently, we conducted market research for CMS (content management system) and selected our favorites. We are going to implement a DevOps strategy and build package solutions for all common cloud providers.

Things are getting better with us!