Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

[Deivuh]

http://davidhsiehlo.com/blog/2014/04/27/digitalocean-droplets-manager-OSX/

[tlrobinson]

Neat. I'd love something like this that supported all the major cloud providers (perhaps via libcloud https://libcloud.apache.org/)

[andrewchilds → tlrobinson]

It's doesn't have a UI, but I wrote a command line tool called Overcast that lets you create/manage/destroy/reboot DigitalOcean and Linode VMs. Support for AWS is on the roadmap. http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast

    # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on DigitalOcean
    $ overcast digitalocean create db_01 --cluster db

    # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on Linode
    $ overcast linode create db_02 --cluster db

    # Configure both instances in parallel
    $ overcast run db install/core install/redis --parallel
    $ overcast expose db 22 6379 --parallel

    # Interact with both instances at once over SSH
    $ overcast ssh db

    # Reboot, snapshot, destroy, etc
    $ overcast digitalocean snapshot db_01 db_01_snapshot
    $ overcast digitalocean reboot db_01
    $ overcast linode destroy db_02

[ema_rocca → tlrobinson]

A while ago I wrote a CLI tool that does exactly that: https://github.com/ema/nubo

The tool also exposes its functionalities as a python library, so it might be useful for those who want to manage their VMs through a panel indicator.

[travelton → tlrobinson]

And if it supported the monitoring services for Cloud providers. Looks like I found a new weekend project!

[bananas]

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

[toomuchtodo → bananas]

Its less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?

[rschmitty → toomuchtodo]

Can't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot

I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/

Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown

[toomuchtodo → rschmitty]

I use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation.

And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call).

Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.

[rschmitty → toomuchtodo]

Hopefully you aren't taking calls from the Sales Guy telling you to reboot blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU :P

[toomuchtodo → rschmitty]

Classic!

[hsx → toomuchtodo]

I use shuttle as well as sshpass so I don't have to enter in the passwords (too many to remember).

[lilyball → toomuchtodo]

Unless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use.

[1]: https://github.com/linode/cli

Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.

[bananas → toomuchtodo]

Versus click the bookmark to your droplet list or linode list?

Or do your service maintenance via ssh on the box?

[toomuchtodo → bananas]

I'm saying it clearly has value. You may not agree, but there appears to be an audience for the tool.

[Greenisus]

This is very cool. I made the Rackspace and Slicehost apps back in the day and I always wanted to make a tool like this to manage Rackspace servers. Unfortunately I never got around to it.

[davidivins]

"This application requires OS X 10.9 or later". Looks awesome though. I'd definitely use it if it ever gets 10.8.5 support.

[mattnewton → davidivins]

Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?

[loisaidasam → mattnewton]

(Personally knowing very little about OS X development...)

Are there 10.9-specific features at work here preventing it from being 10.8.5-compatible? I also haven't upgraded yet.

[oatmealsnap]

Thanks! Was wondering who would make this first.

[thehodge]

Hmm we've got 130+ droplets and it seems to only fetch the details of the first one with that quantity

[gurujust1n]

Nice! I saw the one for Ubuntu and thinking we needed one for Mac, thanks again!

[if_by_whisky → gurujust1n]

What's the Ubuntu version?

[yefim → if_by_whisky]

Here it is: http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indi...

[orsenthil]

First things first. What is a droplet and why do I need that?