Wordpress image with custom plugin pre installed

You can create a snapshot and send it to users who need it. That’s not enough public.

The thing you probably want is User Data - Cloud-Init scripts. How To Use Cloud-Config For Your Initial Server Setup. An Introduction to Cloud-Config Scripting. DigitalOcean User Scripts Library.

For further questions feel free to ask.

Hey @saleeh I’d suggest introducing configuration management to achieve this. Try out packer.io . It’s basically a “tool for creating machine images with pre-configured operating systems and installed software from a single source configuration”. DigitalOcean has a great tutorial on setting it up: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-get-started-with-packer-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps

When you get into it, packer has more provisioners other than shell for installing and configuring software. Go through the tutorial first to get what I’m talking about here. For example see how I use this ansible provisioner to install software on the machine:

{
  "builders": [{
    "type": "digitalocean",
    "api_token": "YOUR API TOKEN",
    "region": "nyc3",
    "size": "512mb",
    "image": "ubuntu-14-04-x64"
  }],

  "provisioners": [{
   "type": "ansible",
    "playbook_file": "standard.yml"
    ]
  }]
}

It references an ansible playbook: standard.yml which goes through a list of system packages to install that are listed in the vars.yml file.

standard.yml

---
- hosts: all
  vars_files:
    - vars.yml
  tasks:
    - name: Installs required system packages listed in the vars.yml file
      apt: pkg={{ item }} state=installed update_cache=true
      with_items: "{{ system_packages }}"

vars.yml

---
system_packages:
  - apache2
  - git
  - mysql-server
  - php5-mysql
  - php5
  - libapache2-mod-php5
  - php5-mcrypt
  - unzip
  - zip

command:
  - mysql_install_db
  - mysql_secure_installation

Now all you need to do is share this configuration file that anyone can run to create an image on DigitalOcean with your custom setup. Please share if you do :)