Fast Droplet

For spinning up an Ubuntu VM in Digital Ocean really fast!

Steps

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/garrett-ts/fast-droplet.git

cd fast-droplet

2. Install Terraform

You can do so on MacOS with homebrew:

brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

2. Generate and set your Digital Ocean token

This will be required for Terraform to create the VM via the Digital Ocean API. How to create a personal access token

Copy your token, and set it as an environment variable.

export TF_VAR_DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN='paste_token_here'

3. Generate and set an SSH key to access the VM

This is required in order to access the VM. This step only needs to be done once. How to create SSH keys

Once the key is generated, make note of its location and use the appropriate curl command.

If you have a new SSH key that hasn't been added to your account:

curl -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TF_VAR_DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"name":"your_name_here","public_key":"paste the public key's contents here"}' \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys" 

If you have an existing SSH key and need the ID:

curl -X GET \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TF_VAR_DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys" | jq '.'

In either command, make note of the ID in the curl output. It must be set as an environment variable.

export TF_VAR_SSH_KEY='paste_key_id_here'

4. Invoke Terraform

terraform init

terraform plan

terraform apply

Confirm the terraform commands with yes.

If successful, the output of the terraform apply command will include the public IP of the VM. Use that with your provided SSH key to access it.

ssh -i 'path/to/ssh_key' root@vm_ip_address