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Getting Started With DigitalOcean¶

DigitalOcean is a public cloud provider that specializes in Linux instances.

Configuration¶

Using Salt for DigitalOcean requires a client_key, an api_key, an ssh_key_file, and an ssh_key_name. The client_key and api_key can be found in the Digital Ocean web interface, in the "My Settings" section, under the API Access tab. The ssh_key_name can be found under the "SSH Keys" section.

# Note: This example is for /etc/salt/cloud.providers or any file in the
# /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/ directory.

my-digitalocean-config:
  provider: digital_ocean
  client_key: wFGEwgregeqw3435gDger
  api_key: GDE43t43REGTrkilg43934t34qT43t4dgegerGEgg
  ssh_key_file: /path/to/ssh/key/file
  ssh_key_name: my-key-name
  location: New York 1

Profiles¶

Cloud Profiles¶

Set up an initial profile at /etc/salt/cloud.profiles or in the /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/ directory:

digitalocean-ubuntu:
    provider: my-digitalocean-config
    image: Ubuntu 14.04 x32
    size: 512MB
    location: New York 1
    private_networking: True
    backups_enabled: True

Sizes can be obtained using the --list-sizes option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-sizes my-digitalocean-config
my-digitalocean-config:
    ----------
    digital_ocean:
        ----------
        512MB:
            ----------
            cost_per_hour:
                0.00744
            cost_per_month:
                5.0
            cpu:
                1
            disk:
                20
            id:
                66
            memory:
                512
            name:
                512MB
            slug:
                None
...SNIP...

Images can be obtained using the --list-images option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-images my-digitalocean-config
my-digitalocean-config:
    ----------
    digital_ocean:
        ----------
        Arch Linux 2013.05 x64:
            ----------
            distribution:
                Arch Linux
            id:
                350424
            name:
                Arch Linux 2013.05 x64
            public:
                True
            slug:
                None
...SNIP...

Note

DigitalOcean's concept of Applications is nothing more than a pre-configured instance (same as a normal Droplet). You will find examples such Docker 0.7 Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and Wordpress on Ubuntu 12.10 when using the --list-images option. These names can be used just like the rest of the standard instances when specifying an image in the cloud profile configuration.

Note

Additional documentation is available from DigitalOcean.