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Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

152 points by Deivuh 12y ago

tlrobinson 12y ago
Neat. I'd love something like this that supported all the major cloud providers (perhaps via libcloud https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/)
- travelton 12y ago
  And if it supported the monitoring services for Cloud providers. Looks like I found a new weekend project!
- andrewchilds 12y ago
  It's doesn't have a UI, but I wrote a command line tool called Overcast that lets you create/manage/destroy/reboot DigitalOcean and Linode VMs. Support for AWS is on the roadmap. http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on DigitalOcean $ overcast digitalocean create db_01 --cluster db # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on Linode $ overcast linode create db_02 --cluster db # Configure both instances in parallel $ overcast run db install/core install/redis --parallel $ overcast expose db 22 6379 --parallel # Interact with both instances at once over SSH $ overcast ssh db # Reboot, snapshot, destroy, etc $ overcast digitalocean snapshot db_01 db_01_snapshot $ overcast digitalocean reboot db_01 $ overcast linode destroy db_02
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- ema_rocca 12y ago
  A while ago I wrote a CLI tool that does exactly that: https://github.com/ema/nubo https://github.com/ema/nubo The tool also exposes its functionalities as a python library, so it might be useful for those who want to manage their VMs through a panel indicator.
oatmealsnap 12y ago
Thanks! Was wondering who would make this first.
gurujust1n 12y ago
Nice! I saw the one for Ubuntu and thinking we needed one for Mac, thanks again!
- if_by_whisky 12y ago
  What's the Ubuntu version?
  - yefim 12y ago
    Here it is: http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indicator-release/ http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indi...
bananas 12y ago
Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Its less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?
  - eridius 12y ago
    Unless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use. [1]: https://github.com/linode/cli https://github.com/linode/cli Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.
  - rschmitty 12y ago
    Can't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown
    - toomuchtodo 12y ago
      I use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation. And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call). Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.
      - rschmitty 12y ago
        Hopefully you aren't taking calls from the Sales Guy telling you to reboot blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU :P
davidivins 12y ago
"This application requires OS X 10.9 or later". Looks awesome though. I'd definitely use it if it ever gets 10.8.5 support.
- mattnewton 12y ago
  Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?
  - loisaidasam 12y ago
    (Personally knowing very little about OS X development...) Are there 10.9-specific features at work here preventing it from being 10.8.5-compatible? I also haven't upgraded yet.
Greenisus 12y ago
This is very cool. I made the Rackspace and Slicehost apps back in the day and I always wanted to make a tool like this to manage Rackspace servers. Unfortunately I never got around to it.
orsenthil 12y ago
First things first. What is a droplet and why do I need that?
thehodge 12y ago
Hmm we've got 130+ droplets and it seems to only fetch the details of the first one with that quantity

152 points by Deivuh 12y ago

Neat. I'd love something like this that supported all the major cloud providers (perhaps via libcloud https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/)

travelton 12y ago
And if it supported the monitoring services for Cloud providers. Looks like I found a new weekend project!
andrewchilds 12y ago
It's doesn't have a UI, but I wrote a command line tool called Overcast that lets you create/manage/destroy/reboot DigitalOcean and Linode VMs. Support for AWS is on the roadmap. http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast http://andrewchilds.github.io/overcast # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on DigitalOcean $ overcast digitalocean create db_01 --cluster db # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on Linode $ overcast linode create db_02 --cluster db # Configure both instances in parallel $ overcast run db install/core install/redis --parallel $ overcast expose db 22 6379 --parallel # Interact with both instances at once over SSH $ overcast ssh db # Reboot, snapshot, destroy, etc $ overcast digitalocean snapshot db_01 db_01_snapshot $ overcast digitalocean reboot db_01 $ overcast linode destroy db_02
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ema_rocca 12y ago
A while ago I wrote a CLI tool that does exactly that: https://github.com/ema/nubo https://github.com/ema/nubo The tool also exposes its functionalities as a python library, so it might be useful for those who want to manage their VMs through a panel indicator.

oatmealsnap 12y ago

Thanks! Was wondering who would make this first.

gurujust1n 12y ago

Nice! I saw the one for Ubuntu and thinking we needed one for Mac, thanks again!

if_by_whisky 12y ago
What's the Ubuntu version?
- yefim 12y ago
  Here it is: http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indicator-release/ http://blog.andrewsomething.com/2014/04/25/digitalocean-indi...

bananas 12y ago

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

toomuchtodo 12y ago
Its less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?
- eridius 12y ago
  Unless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use. [1]: https://github.com/linode/cli https://github.com/linode/cli Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.
- rschmitty 12y ago
  Can't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    I use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation. And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call). Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.
    - rschmitty 12y ago
      Hopefully you aren't taking calls from the Sales Guy telling you to reboot blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU :P

davidivins 12y ago

"This application requires OS X 10.9 or later". Looks awesome though. I'd definitely use it if it ever gets 10.8.5 support.

mattnewton 12y ago
Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?
- loisaidasam 12y ago
  (Personally knowing very little about OS X development...) Are there 10.9-specific features at work here preventing it from being 10.8.5-compatible? I also haven't upgraded yet.

Greenisus 12y ago

This is very cool. I made the Rackspace and Slicehost apps back in the day and I always wanted to make a tool like this to manage Rackspace servers. Unfortunately I never got around to it.

orsenthil 12y ago

First things first. What is a droplet and why do I need that?

thehodge 12y ago

Hmm we've got 130+ droplets and it seems to only fetch the details of the first one with that quantity