In the last article we learned how to set up and use a Digital Ocean Oauth app. Now that we understand how that works, let's make all of that hard work more accessible to the rest of the Flask community. Flask-Dance is an extension that is used to complete the …

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The OAuth flow can be confusing the first time you do it. This article and example project should help you feel more comfortable specifically for people who would like to use OAuth with Digital Ocean.

The code for this application can be found at https://github.com/mikeabrahamsen/flask-digitalocean-oauth-example

Conveyor …

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In this iteration a few small changes are going to be made. Here is the current state of the Conveyor registration page:

Here it is after the following changes:

• The width of the form imports are too long
• Add a referral code input
• Make the submit button smaller
• Right align …

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Currently Conveyor will install Python 3.6 when you create a server as 3.6 is the version that is used with Ubuntu 18. However, it would be great to have the ability to install more recent versions of Python and be able to use different versions depending on the …

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When refactoring the new flow for creating a site the + New Site button was removed so there was only one option to add a site. If you already have a site with Conveyor we need to make sure the add site button is available.

To start I have written two …

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Creating the first site on Conveyor.dev can use some improvement. Currently the user will need to create the site, create the server, then wait for the server to finish provisioning before heading to the "Sites" page where they can then see that the site has not been added to …

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Pythonic - an idiom used for the python programming language that encourages code readability while striving for an optimal solution to a problem.

This idiom drove a lot of decisions when building conveyor.dev

To try to make a simple solution that works for most applications.

No container orchestration, no docker …

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Before you start

Before you get started with Conveyor you will need the following:

• A domain name
• A Github account
• Digital Ocean or Linode account

Create a Conveyor.dev account

To get started you will need to create an account on Conveyor.dev

When you log in for the first …

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Early access to Conveyor is now available.

Visit conveyor.dev to apply.

Conveyor simplifies deployments and lets you focus on building applications

Automatic server provisioning

Site management and deployment

Create PostgreSQL and MySQL databases

Manage your application workers