By Tim Hopper: tdhopper.com

Automating Python with Ansible is an interactive tutorial about how to use the Ansbile configuration management tool to run a long-running Python process on a remote machine in a repeatable manner. It's particularly oriented towards data scientists.

• $ brew install ansible on a Mac.
• $ sudo apt-get install ansible on a Debian/Ubuntu system.

• Install Conda
• $ conda env update to create Conda environment from environment.yml.
• $ source activate automating_python (in Bash).
• $ python -m bash_kernel.install to install Jupyter bash kernel.

I used DigitalOcean. They have a nice UI and clear instructions. You'll want to add an SSH key so you can ssh without a password.

To make it easy to SSH to the box, add something like this to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host digitalocean
  HostName VPS.IP.ADDR.ESS
  User root
  Port 22
  IdentityFile "/Users/USER/.ssh/id_rsa"
  ForwardAgent yes

• $ jupyter-notebook to launch a local Jupyter notebook server.
• Open the Automating Python with Ansible.ipynb notebook.