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DigitalOcean Builder

Type: digitalocean

The digitalocean builder is able to create new images for use with DigitalOcean. The builder takes a source image, runs any provisioning necessary on the image after launching it, then snapshots it into a reusable image. This reusable image can then be used as the foundation of new servers that are launched within DigitalOcean.

The builder does not manage images. Once it creates an image, it is up to you to use it or delete it.

Configuration Reference

There are many configuration options available for the builder. They are segmented below into two categories: required and optional parameters. Within each category, the available configuration keys are alphabetized.

Required:

• api_key (string) - The API key to use to access your account. You can retrieve this on the "API" page visible after logging into your account on DigitalOcean. Alternatively, the builder looks for the environment variable DIGITALOCEAN_API_KEY.

• client_id (string) - The client ID to use to access your account. You can find this on the "API" page visible after logging into your account on DigitalOcean. Alternatively, the builder looks for the environment variable DIGITALOCEAN_CLIENT_ID.

Optional:

• image_id (int) - The ID of the base image to use. This is the image that will be used to launch a new droplet and provision it. Defaults to "284203", which happens to be "Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Server."

• region_id (int) - The ID of the region to launch the droplet in. Consequently, this is the region where the snapshot will be available. This defaults to "1", which is "New York."

• size_id (int) - The ID of the droplet size to use. This defaults to "66," which is the 512MB droplet.

• snapshot_name (string) - The name of the resulting snapshot that will appear in your account. This must be unique. To help make this unique, use a function like timestamp (see configuration templates for more info)

• ssh_port (int) - The port that SSH will be available on. Defaults to port 22.

• ssh_timeout (string) - The time to wait for SSH to become available before timing out. The format of this value is a duration such as "5s" or "5m". The default SSH timeout is "1m".

• ssh_username (string) - The username to use in order to communicate over SSH to the running droplet. Default is "root".

• state_timeout (string) - The time to wait, as a duration string, for a droplet to enter a desired state (such as "active") before timing out. The default state timeout is "6m".

Basic Example

Here is a basic example. It is completely valid as soon as you enter your own access tokens:

{
  "type": "digitalocean",
  "client_id": "YOUR CLIENT ID",
  "api_key": "YOUR API KEY"
}

Finding Image, Region, and Size IDs

Unfortunately, finding a list of available values for image_id, region_id, and size_id is not easy at the moment. Basically, it has to be done through the DigitalOcean API using the /images, /regions, and /sizes endpoints. You can use curl for this or request it in your browser.

If you're comfortable installing RubyGems, Tugboat is a fantastic DigitalOcean command-line client that has commands to find the available images, regions, and sizes. For example, to see all the global images, you can run tugboat images --global.