# Setting up a Droplet You can set up a droplet via the DO website # Connecting to the droplet The easiest way to connect is to SSH into the droplet using the `root` account and the password you provided on setup. This should look a little like: `ssh root@[droplet-ip-address]` You will then be asked to enter the password # Installing a private repo from Github Installing a private repo requires you to have a fine-grained token. To set this up, go to your Github settings, then click on: `Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens > Fine-grained tokens` Create a new token, select the repo(s) you want to grant access to, and specify the access you would like to provide under the "Contents" repository permission. Create the token and copy the key. You should now be able to clone the private repo using the following command: `git clone https://[private-key]@github.com/[repo-path].git . # Installing Poetry in a droplet To install poetry in a DO droplet, run the following comand `apt install python3-poetry` # Installing a Django app Now that you have Poetry installed, you can run `poetry install` in the repo