dokitchensink

Manually creating or deleting droplets and associated DNS records for them using the DO website is error-prone and a chore, especially when creating public A and AAAA records plus another A record for your VPC network.

Digitalocean's own doctl is better, but does not combine all steps in one go. You'd need to get the IPs from doctl into some kind of shell script, then use that script to check if stray DNS records already exist so you can update instead of insert - assuming a very basic usecase where you usually don't want multiple records for the same name.

Instead of hapharzardly stringing together some doctl commands using the shell, I decided I'd rather do it in python. And when doing it in python, why wrap doctl when you can go straight for the DO API.

Usage

Create droplet

dokitchensink-faucet --token foo --name test1 --pub-domain infra.example.com --vpc-domain dointern.example.com --ssh-key-names my_key your_key

Delete droplet

dokitchensink-drain --token foo --name test1 --pub-domain infra.example.com --vpc-domain dointern.example.com

Installation

Note that your poetry installation needs to run on python3.8 at least.

cd dokitchensink
poetry install

Notes

• The DO token is exposed in the process list while the scipt is running, so you'll have to trust your local machine.
• dokitchensink-faucet assumes a few things and makes little to no effort to expose these assumptions via the cli:
  • backups: off (I'm assuming droplets are expendable, if not: turn on the backups afterwards)
  • VPC: on
  • monitoring: on
  • ipv6: on