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From: Thomas Hintz <t@thintz.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:04:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Updating services documentation.

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 - [[https://www.docker.com/][docker]]
 - bash
 
+** Services
+
+*** [[https://www.digitalocean.com/][DigitalOcean]]
+
+- Create a DigitalOcean account and sign in to it
+
+- [[https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens][Click "API" on sidebar]]
+
+- Click "generate a new token"
+  - enter a name (can be anything, just for you to remember)
+  - set expiration as you desire
+  - set the "scope" to "Full Access"
+  - save the generated token for placing in production.tfvars -> do_token
+
+*** [[https://www.cloudflare.com/][Cloudflare]]
+
+- Create a CloudFlare account and sign into it
+
+- Either register a new domain or if you already have a domain not being used you can continue with that
+
+- On sidebar to to "Manage Account" -> "Account API Tokens"
+  - Click "Create Token"
+  - Under "templates" click "edit zone dns"
+  - Under "Zone Resources", in the box labelled "Select..." select the domain you want to use
+  - Click "continue to summary"
+  - Click "create token"
+  - Copy the token for use later on for the "cloudflare_api_token" in config/production.tfvars
+
+- Click "Account Home" to go back to the top level
+
+- Click on the domain you are using
+  - This will show the "Overview"
+  - Scroll down until you see the API heading and copy the "Zone ID" and "Account ID"
+
+    These will be used later on in config/production.tfvars for cloudflare_zone_id and cloudflare_account_id
+
+*** [[https://backblaze.com][Backblaze]]
+
+This is used automated for "off-site" backups / snapshots.
+
+- Create a Backblaze B2 account and sign in to it
+
+- Click "create a bucket"
+  - Give it a unique name (recommended something like [my-domain-com]-app-backups) but replace my-domain-com with your domain
+  - Files in bucket should be set to "Private"
+  - Leave "Default Encryption" as "disabled" (restic will encrypt the data)
+  - Leave "Object Lock" as disabled
+
+- Click on "Lifecycle Settings" under the newly created bucket
+  - Change to "Keep only the last version of the file"
+  - Click "Update Bucket"
+
+- Under the bucket details copy "Endpoint" for use later on in config/apps.config BACKBLAZE_BUCKET_URL
+
+- Click "Application Keys"
+  - Click "Add a new application key"
+  - "Name" can be whatever you want to remember it is a key for the backups for your apps
+  - Change "Allow access to buckets" to only the bucket you created in the previous step
+  - Leave "Type of Access" set to "Read and Write"
+  - Leave other options in their default values
+  - Click "Create new key"
+  - Copy/save the key for later use in config/apps.config BACKBLAZE_APPLICATION_KEY and the "keyID" for BACKBLAZE_KEY_ID
+
 ** Configuration
 *** apps.config