provisioningDO

Overview:

This is a rakefile with several tasks to provision Debian i386/amd64 VPS with puppet client up and running on www.digitalocean.com

This script suposes:

• The user your are running it has sudo access to run without password /usr/bin/puppet, /bin/tar

  Example of a sudoers file: user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/puppet, /bin/tar

• You have tugboat CLI installed and configured https://github.com/pearkes/tugboat

• You are running it in the puppetmaster server, as it need access to the CA to create/clean the puppet certificates

Variables:

There are some variables than must be set in order to deploy the droplet with your specifications

SERVER_ROLE eg: pentahopdi This is a local fact that will be populated and can be used to tag servers on deployment time facter -p server_role server_role: SERVER eg: vps1.example.com

DOMAIN eg: example.com

ENVIRONMENT eg: production/test/QA # This is the puppet environment

REGION eg: 9 # for AMS3

SIZE eg: 66 # default for a 512 droplet

IDTEMPLATE should be 12778278 for amd64 debian image

Usage:

Example:

To deploy a new amd64 server:

SERVER_ROLE=pentahopdi ENVIRONMENT=production IDTEMPLATE=12778278 REGION=9 SIZE=66 SERVER=vps1.example.org DOMAIN=example.com rake droplet_deploy

To decommission a server:

SERVER_ROLE=pentahopdi ENVIRONMENT=production IDTEMPLATE=12778278 REGION=9 SIZE=66 SERVER=vps1.example.org DOMAIN=example.com rake droplet_decommission

Live example:

Bootstrapping a new VPS on a DigitalOcean droplet with puppet client up and running in 4m15secs:

https://asciinema.org/a/ex42dlm530maj5viplg6j8pr0

Website:

http://www.elsotanillo.net/2013/11/bootstrapping-a-new-vps-on-a-digitalocean-droplet-with-puppet-client-up-and-running-in-4-mins-15-secs/