Terraform

This is an example Terraform remote installation on a VM provided by Digital Ocean. See the /packaging/terraform directory for the example configuration.

  • Create an account on DO and upload a public SSH key and note your API token.
  • Export a DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN variable with your API token.
  • Get the hash fingerprint that DO generated for your SSH key (this is a DO thing).
curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $DO_TOKEN" "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys"
  • Export a TF_VAR_fingerprint variable with the hash.
  • Get the latest droplet instances and sizes, you’ll need the awesome jq parser for JSON installed.
curl -X GET --silent "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?per_page=999" -H "Authorization: Bearer $DO_TOKEN" > droplets.json
curl --silent -X GET "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/sizes" -H "Authorization: Bearer $DO_TOKEN" | jq '.sizes[].slug' > sizes.json
  • Adjust droplet config as you wish using info from the above.
  • Profit!
terraform init
terraform apply
terraform state pull | jq --raw-output

You should be able to ssh as root if the public key was set correctly (this is the default of DO).

Clean up.

terraform destroy