By louispilfold
I’m looking to form a cluster of distributed Elixir nodes on DigitalOcean.
I wish to use droplet tags to do node discovery identify which droplets are intended to belong to the cluster, as I would on EC2 using this library: https://github.com/kyleaa/libcluster_ec2
It would work by polling a DO API every few seconds, querying to get the IP addresses of all droplets with the specified tag. Once I have these IPs I can handle the connection logic without problem.
What is the recommended way to find droplets with a given tag? From the DO metadata API docs it seems it does not provide that functionality. Ideally it would be a simple JSON API call that requires no further authentication when called from the droplet itself.
Thanks, Louis
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The aim of the metadata API is to allow a Droplet to access data about itself. This allows a Droplet to know what it is tagged with by calling:
curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/tags/
To list all Droplets with a specific tag, you would need to use the DigitalOcean public API. You can pass tag_name as a query parameter when listing your Droplets to only receive back ones with that tag. For example:
curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets?tag_name=database"
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