red_drop:drop_of_blood: 
Simple "interactive" cli for automating digitalocean droplet management with sane defaults baked in for research and development.
Expirementing with the cloud can be expensive and stressful when you have to manually setup and take down Virtual Machines in order to avoid unwanted charges.
Have you ever wonderd "Hmmm... If only there was a simple way to have a linux server in the cloud so that I can fully take advantage of all those free new member credits"?
Most tools are not geared towards automating provisioning for simple research and development on cloud platforms. In fact they can be quite overwhelming with the multitude of different configurations they provide on all their cloud services.
red_drop is an easy to use tool that will take the stress out of provisioning and destroying droplets with reasonable configurations for research and development on digitalocean's cloud.
Installation
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
$ bundle add red_drop
If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
$ gem install red_drop
Usage
After installing the gem, simply enter the following command:
$ red_drop
It will then try to look for a valid authentication token. If it can't find one it will prompt you for one. You can find yours or generate one from the API tab on your digitalocean dashboard panel.
In order to use this tool you will need a digitalocean account with a payment method on your account. You can use the referral badge below to sign up with $200 of free credit for 60 days to use as your payment method.
The referral badge above will also help fund research and developmet on the project.
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sergio-ortiz/red_drop.
Todos
- Research: TDD whether its w/ minitest or rspec
- Research: authenticating ssh key on DigitalOcean to eventually disable password login
- Research: delete and status class to filter droplet destroy status before puts droplets
- Research: # frozen_string_literal: true "magic comment"
- Research: File system programming in Ruby
- Features: cloud-init cloud-config.yaml for user_data in create class request
- Research: including created_at when puts droplets
Useful Links
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.