Merge pull request #63 from protocol/digitalocean-droplet

Create One-Click for Lotus on DigitalOcean Droplets

Author: mikeal

proposals/digitalocean-droplet.md

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+# "One-Click" for running Lotus on DigitalOcean
+
+Authors: johndmulhausen
+
+Initial PR: #63
+
+## Purpose & impact
+#### Background & intent
+
+Ship one-click machine image for Lotus nodes so that it is easy to get started, and bake-in some state downloading so we can jumpstart the sync process. 
+
+#### Assumptions & hypotheses
+
+We believe being able to deploy Lotus nodes with a single click will significantly reduce startup friction. The proposed image will download a `.car` file from an S3 bucket with a usable chain state, which should complete about 20 minutes after the one-click is fired up, rather than taking days. 
+
+#### User workflow example
+
+User is linked to marketplace.digitalocean.com URL from the docs, then they click "Create" to fire up a Lotus node on their DigitalOcean account. After making a couple selections about the machine they'd like to run the software on, it is created with Lotus installed, and a script fires to download the .car file. Shortly afterwards (ETA 20 minutes) the node is live.
+
+#### Impact
+
+🔥🔥🔥
+
+This is a huge pain point now, we're reducing the number of steps significantly and the startup time is reduced to a fraction of the original.
+
+#### Confidence
+
+High
+
+## Project definition
+#### Brief plan of attack
+
+- Create Image
+- Create Vendor account w/DigitalOcean
+- Work w/Marketplace team to make sure image scans are clean
+- Ship!
+
+#### What does done look like?
+
+Marketplace URL is live.
+
+####  What does success look like?
+
+We can point to a startup process that takes less than a half hour rather than days.
+
+#### Counterpoints & pre-mortem
+
+TBD
+
+#### Alternatives
+
+TBD
+
+#### Dependencies/prerequisites
+
+TBD
+
+#### Future opportunities
+
+TBD
+
+## Required resources
+
+#### Effort estimate
+
+- Medium: Days
+
+#### Roles / skills needed
+
+- Ops/dev (image creation)
+- Tech Writer (documentation, image submission)