Freqtrade setup on DigitalOcean

Setting up infrastructure for running freqtrade on DigitalOcean (Affiliate link).

Setting up venv

make venv requirements

Running on DigitalOcean

Pre-requisite

• Set DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable to token from Digital Ocean API Key.
• Set DIGITAL_OCEAN_SSH_FINGERPRINT environment variable to SSH fingerprint from Digital Ocean SSH Key.
• Set DIGITAL_OCEAN_SSH_KEY environment variable to the file path of private SSH key. For eg. ~/.ssh/py-flask-digitalocean as this will be used when setting up the Digital Ocean droplet.

These can be setup by

export DIGITAL_OCEAN_TOKEN=
export DIGITAL_OCEAN_SSH_FINGERPRINT=
export DIGITAL_OCEAN_SSH_KEY=
export FLASK_SECRET_KEY=

Setting up application

• Start up DigitalOcean droplet

make doplaybook

• Setup user for management and deployment

make bootstrap

• Setup and Secure Ubuntu etc

make setupplaybook

Initial setup

make setupfq

Update freqtrade

make updatefq

Running or Updating bot

To re-deploy changes and restart bot after deployment

make runbot

Cleanup

Make sure you have doctl installed

It can be initialised with the token in the environment variable

doctl auth init --access-token $DIGITAL_OCEAN_TOKEN

Then run the following to delete the droplet.

Please note that the following action is destructive and remove any unsaved changes/data on the droplet.

make deleteinfra