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How To Use Droplet Tagging with the cloud provider API — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Droplet Tagging with the cloud provider API

Droplet tagging is a new feature, not yet exposed via the the cloud provider Control Panel, but available to users of the API. This feature allows you to group and locate Droplets by applying tags, as well as initiate actions across all the Droplets with a specific tag. This guide explains basic usage of the feature with cURL.

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Understanding Queries in GraphQL — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Queries in GraphQL

In this tutorial, we’ll take an in-depth look at queries in GraphQL so that you better understand how to retrieve data from a GraphQL server. We will cover fields, arguments, aliases, operation syntax, and more. Once you have finished, you will be able to leverage the functionality of queries to build better API’s with GraphQL.

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How To Use OAuth Authentication with the cloud provider as a User or Developer — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use OAuth Authentication with the cloud provider as a User or Developer

One of the most exciting features about version 2 of the cloud provider’s API is the inclusion of OAuth authentication. This allows users to grant access to applications to use their account. As a developer, you can request access from your users through a simple web UI which will streamline the process of gaining account authorization. In this guide, we will discuss how to interact with this feature as both a user and developer.

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