Knife::DigitalOcean

A knife plugin to deal with the DigitalOcean.com Cloud services.

This is a plugin for Chef's knife tool. It allows you to bootstrap virtual machines with DigitalOcean.com including the initial bootstrapping of chef on that system. You can also use knife-solo for chef bootstrapping or skip it altogether for another solution.

This knife plugin uses the digital_ocean rubygem.

Installation

➜ gem install knife-digital_ocean

Overview

This plugin provides the following sub-commands:

knife digital_ocean server create (options)
Creates a virtual machine with or without bootstrapping chef
knife digital_ocean server destroy (options)
Destroys the virtual machine and its data
knife digital_ocean server list (options)
Lists currently running virtual machines
knife digital_ocean image list (options)
Lists available images (snapshots, backups, OS-images)
knife digital_ocean region list (options)
Lists the server regions/locations/data-center
knife digital_ocean size list (options)
Lists the available server sizes
knife digital_ocean sshkey list
Lists name + id of the uploaded known ssh keys

Configuration

The best way is to put your API-credentials of DigitalOcean in your knife.rb file of choice (e.g. in ~/.chef/knife.rb):

knife[:digital_ocean_client_id] = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'
knife[:digital_ocean_api_key]   = 'YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'

Usage

Create a Droplet

There are three different ways of creating a server/droplet instance:

If you just want to launch an instance form the command line without any bootstrapping, go for option C. If you use knife-solo try B and if you are a chef-server-fan use method A:

A. With bootstrapping in an chef-server environment:

Example

➜ knife digital_ocean server create --server-name awesome-vm1.chef.io \
                                      --image 25306 \
                                      --location 2 \
                                      --size 66 \
                                      --ssh-keys 1234,1235 \
                                      --bootstrap \
                                      --run-list "role[base],role[webserver]"

Syntax

➜ knife digital_ocean server create --server-name <FQDN> \
                                      --image <IMAGE ID> \
                                      --location <REGION ID> \
                                      --size <SIZE ID> \
                                      --ssh-keys <SSH KEY-ID(s), comma-separated> \
                                      --bootstrap \
                                      --run-list "<RUNLIST>"

Short Syntax

➜ knife digital_ocean server create -N <FQDN> \
                                      -I <IMAGE ID> \
                                      -L <REGION ID> \
                                      -S <SIZE ID> \
                                      -K <SSH KEY-ID(s), comma-separated> \
                                      -B \
                                      -r "<RUNLIST>"

B. With knife-solo bootstrapping

You need to have knife-solo gem installed.

This will create a droplet and run knife solo bootstrap <IP> equivalent for it.

Example

➜ knife digital_ocean server create --server-name awesome-vm1.chef.io \
                                      --image 25306 \
                                      --location 2 \
                                      --size 66 \
                                      --ssh-keys 1234,4567 \
                                      --solo

C. With your custom external bootstrapping script or without chef at all

This will just create a droplet and return its IP-address. Nothing else. You can now run your custom solution to provision the droplet.

Example

➜ knife digital_ocean server create --server-name awesome-vm1.chef.io \
                                      --image 25306 \
                                      --location 2 \
                                      --size 66 \
                                      --ssh-keys 1234,4567

List running droplets (servers)

➜ knife digital_ocean server list
ID     Name                  Size   Region       IPv4            Image                            Status
12345  app20.ams.nl.chef.io  1GB    Amsterdam 1  185.14.123.123  25306 (Ubuntu 12.10 x32 Server)  active
23456  awesome-vm1.chef.io   512MB  Amsterdam 1  185.14.124.125  25306 (Ubuntu 12.10 x32 Server)  active

Destroy a droplet (server) including all of its data!

➜ knife digital_ocean server destroy -S 23456
OK

List regions

➜ knife digital_ocean region list
ID  Name       
1   New York 1 
2   Amsterdam 1

List sizes (instance types)

➜ knife digital_ocean size list  
ID  Name 
63  1GB  
62  2GB  
64  4GB  
65  8GB  
61  16GB 
60  32GB 
70  48GB 
69  64GB 
68  96GB 
66  512MB

List images

Custom images (snapshots, backups) (default)

➜ knife digital_ocean image list
ID     Distribution  Name                                Global
11111  Ubuntu        app100.ams.nlxxxxx.net 2013-02-01   -     
11112  Ubuntu        app100.ams.nlxxxxx.net 2013-02-03   -     
11113  Ubuntu        init                                -

Global images (OS)

➜ knife digital_ocean image list --global
ID     Distribution  Name                                 Global
23593  Arch Linux    Arch Linux 2012-09 x64               +     
1602   CentOS        CentOS 5.8 x32                       +     
1601   CentOS        CentOS 5.8 x64                       +     
1605   CentOS        CentOS 6.0 x32                       +     
1611   CentOS        CentOS 6.2 x64                       +     
12578  CentOS        CentOS 6.3 x32                       +     
12574  CentOS        CentOS 6.3 x64                       +     
12575  Debian        Debian 6.0 x32                       +     
12573  Debian        Debian 6.0 x64                       +     
1606   Fedora        Fedora 15 x64                        +     
1618   Fedora        Fedora 16 x64 Desktop                +     
1615   Fedora        Fedora 16 x64 Server                 +     
32399  Fedora        Fedora 17 x32 Desktop                +     
32387  Fedora        Fedora 17 x32 Server                 +     
32419  Fedora        Fedora 17 x64 Desktop                +     
32428  Fedora        Fedora 17 x64 Server                 +     
63749  Gentoo        Gentoo 2013-1 x64                    +     
1607   Gentoo        Gentoo x64                           +     
46964  Ubuntu        LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04                 +     
4870   Ubuntu        Rails 3.2.2 - Nginx MySQL Passenger  +     
14098  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 10.04 x32 Server              +     
14097  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Server              +     
43462  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 11.04x32 Desktop              +     
43458  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 11.04x64 Server               +     
1609   Ubuntu        Ubuntu 11.10 x32 Server              +     
42735  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.04 x32 Server              +     
14218  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Desktop             +     
2676   Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Server              +     
25485  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.10 x32 Desktop             +     
25306  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.10 x32 Server              +     
25493  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Desktop             +     
25489  Ubuntu        Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Server              +     
13632  openSUSE      Open Suse 12.1 x32                   +     
13863  openSUSE      Open Suse 12.2 X64                   +

SSH keys (previously uploaded via DigitalOcean's webfrontend)

➜ knife digital_ocean sshkey list    
ID    Name  
1234  Alice
1235  Bob
1236  Chuck
1237  Craig

Commercial Support

Commercial support is available. Please contact https://roland.io/ or http://moriz.com/

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

Contributors

Teemu Matilainen

For more information and a complete list see the contributor page on GitHub.

License

Apache 2.0 (like Chef itself), see LICENSE.txt file.

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karlwilbur/knife-digital_ocean

Knife::DigitalOcean

A knife plugin to deal with the DigitalOcean.com Cloud services.

Installation

Overview

Configuration

Usage

Create a Droplet

A. With bootstrapping in an chef-server environment:

B. With knife-solo bootstrapping

C. With your custom external bootstrapping script or without chef at all

List running droplets (servers)

Destroy a droplet (server) including all of its data!

List regions

List sizes (instance types)

List images

Custom images (snapshots, backups) (default)

Global images (OS)

SSH keys (previously uploaded via DigitalOcean's webfrontend)

Commercial Support

Contributing

Contributors

License

Mobile Application

Copyright