How to programatically create and configure a digital ocean droplet using API and Ansible?

Question

We have a working ansible script which we use to configure a droplet after it is manually provisioned.

We are now planning to ditch manual process and automate creation and destruction of do instances using a python script. This is the workflow I have in mind.

Create a droplet, with all required software and save it as a snapshot
When needed spin up a droplet based on the snapshot using python api from a script
Using Ansible make config changes to the snapshot, from the same script

The idea is to have fully automatic creation of instances, from a python script, with all software installed and all configuration done.

My question is how to do the step 3?

Thanks

Bobby Iliev · Answer

Hello,

Can you please clarify on what changes exactly do you need to make?

Here’s the documentation regarding the Snapshots API functionality:

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#snapshots

For example if you would like to create a volume snapshot you could just use this curl request:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582' -d '{"name":"big-data-snapshot1475261774", "tags":["aninterestingtag"]}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes/82a48a18-873f-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41/snapshots"

The output that you would get should look something like this:

{
  "snapshot": {
    "id": "8fa70202-873f-11e6-8b68-000f533176b1",
    "name": "big-data-snapshot1475261774",
    "regions": [
      "nyc1"
    ],
    "created_at": "2016-09-30T18:56:14Z",
    "resource_id": "82a48a18-873f-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41",
    "resource_type": "volume",
    "min_disk_size": 10,
    "size_gigabytes": 0,
    "tags": [
      "aninterestingtag"
    ]
  }
}

Hope that this helps! Bobby

MilesWeb · Answer

Have you checked to apply the aci_config_snapshot module?

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