Hopefully, you have now signed up for a digital ocean accounts.
Once you're at the screen right here, we're then going to create a new Cuban Eddys cluster.
So as soon as we create this cluster, that is when you're going to start being billed for some amount
of money.
Just keep that in mind if you ever walk away from this course.
You do need to come back to this digital ocean dashboard and terminate the cluster and I'll show you
how to do that.
It is very easy.
First, of course, we do have to create the cluster trying to find the green create button at the top
right hand side, and we're going to create a cluster.
We're then going to be prompted with a series of different questions, first of these version, you
can use any version you see right here.
Best to just leave it at the default.
Next up is the data center region pricing between regions is identical with digital ocean.
I'm pretty sure I could be wrong on that in the day.
The region you select doesn't make a big difference.
Just make sure you select something that is physically close to you in the world.
It's just gonna reduce latency a little bit as you're trying to work with the cluster.
For VPC network, we can leave that at the default and then the only setting here that really makes
a difference for us right now is the cluster capacity.
This is where we are going to add in summit number of nodes or essentially virtual machines to run all
of our different pods.
By default, you should see something that says standard nodes right here.
And have the ten dollar a month option selected.
That's what we want.
We want the ten dollar a month note selected right here.
We're then going to make sure we have at least three notes.
You technically can't get away with two, but you might have a hard time running our application with
only two nodes.
I would really recommend sticking it with three.
You can see that we're gonna be paying about thirty dollars a month.
Now, you might recall the diagram I showing you just a moment ago.
I said forty dollars a month over here.
Well, we're going to also pay ten dollars for a load balancer as well.
Ten dollars a month.
That's where the extra ten dollars comes from.
Then going to go down to the very bottom and we can set a name for our cluster.
You will be given a default name right here.
I do recommend you update it to something that just makes sense to you.
So for me, I'm going to call it simply ticketing.
Well, then go ahead and create the cluster.
And that's pretty much it when you first create the cluster.
It's going to take some number of minutes for it to first boot up.
You can see a little progress bar up here and they're quoting me about four minutes or so.
Who knows?
So we're going to take a pause right here and just let this thing do it stuff.
We'll come back the next video once everything is completed, setting up and we're going to make sure
that we can deploy our application to it through a get hub deployment pipeline.