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Connected to this question: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/can-you-make-an-erlang-cluster-with-digitalocean-droplets
How would you automate the create and destruction of droplets? Every time one is created they automatically have certain packages installed, perhaps using packer, and then get added to an erlang cluster. How might I go about all of this?
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You can use a tool such as doctl – https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl and some shell scripts
Another solution is to use Hashicorp’s Terraform - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-terraform-with-digitalocean
We use our own automation platform, Tines, for management of our Digital Ocean Droplet automation. We create/delete droplets, add/remove tags, manage DNS and more. It works great! We wrote about how we do it in the below blog post. If you’d like to know more I’m happy to talj through the details - feel free to send me a DM.
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