# Deploy on Digital Ocean

**URL:** https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/guides/deployment/digital-ocean/
**Summary:** This guide provides the initial configurations for your Digital Ocean droplet required to develop with Nakama. After configuring the droplet, Nakama can be installed like any other Docker install.
**Keywords:** deploy digital ocean, deploy nakama, deployment, digital ocean, droplet, nakama droplet
**Categories:** nakama, digital-ocean, deployment

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# Deploy on Digital Ocean

Running Nakama in a Digital Ocean droplet is a great way to develop using Nakama without needing to install it locally.

## Droplet configuration

Your droplet should have the following configuration:

- Linux distribution: **Ubuntu 20.04 x64**
- RAM: **4GB RAM** / 80GB SSD Disk
- Region: To minimize latency, choose a region close to you.
- Add a new SSH Key: Create a new SSH key and store the key safely. This is the way you'll login to your server.

Follow [Digital Ocean’s guide](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets) if you need help setting up a public key.

## Accessing the droplet

Once the droplet is running, make a note of its IP address from within your Digital Ocean console.

![Digital Ocean Dashboard]({{< fingerprint_image "/images/pages/nakama/guides/deployment/digital-ocean/ip-address.png" >}})

For the next steps, you need to SSH into the droplet. There isn’t a need for username/password as you’ve pre-authorized yourself using a public key in the previous step.

```sh
ssh root@<IP ADDRESS>
# you are now connected to the droplet through an SSH session.
# you can type `exit` to close the session.
```

### Installing Docker and Docker Compose

To prepare for installing Nakama, you’ll need to install both Docker and Docker Compose on your droplet.

To do this, run the following commands:

```sh
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh
```

## Running Nakama

Now that you’ve installed Docker and Docker Compose you'll need to create a `docker-compose.yml` file. The easiest way to do this is to use the one from the [nakama](https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama) repo itself.

```sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heroiclabs/nakama/master/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
```

Then run Docker Compose to launch Nakama.

```sh
docker compose up
```

Alternatively to the above, you can follow our guide to [installing Nakama using Docker](../../../getting-started/install/docker/).