DigitalOcean is a public cloud provider that specializes in Linux instances.
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
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.
Docs for previous releases are available on salt.rtfd.org.
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