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23
Apr
2019

Add your custom image to DigitalOcean with Vmware Fusion

I run my Chef cookbooks on DigitalOcean. Only problem is, when the OS isn’t supported anymore DO removes it from their supported images.

DO created something what they call: Custom Images.

I created this vm with Vmware Fusion, because i have it installed om my laptop.

    1. Start Fusion and choose to create a custom install.
    2. DO bills you for the amount of diskspace you use, so we will keep the image as small as possible. I managed to get it inside a 1GB image, 2GB would be easier. Click customtize settings before finishing. When choosing the size click on advanced options and deselect Split into multiple files

These are my options during the installer.

    1. Language → English
    2. Country → Other → Europe → Belgium
    3. Locales → United States
    4. Keymap → american English
    5. Hostname → debian
    6. Partitioning → Manual → Remove all partitions, and create only 1 partition



    7. package survery → no
    8. Grub boot loader → yes
      1. Grub boot loader → /dev/sda
    9. echo -e “/dev/vda1\t /\t ext4\t errors=remount-ro\t 0\t 1” > /etc/fstab
    10. reboot the server

Last steps before uploading.

  1. apt-get update
  2. apt-get upgrade
  3. apt-get dist-upgrade
  4. apt-get clean
  5. apt-get install sudo openssh-server
    1. Digitalocean uses cloud-init to configure the images. Cloud-init depends on some python packages. The latest version in debian jessie doesn’t support DO yet, which makes the initializing process slow. As the cloud-init package doesn’t have any wierd dependecies i just wget the package.
    2. apt-get install gdisk python3-configobj python3-configobj python3-jinja2 python3-jinja2 python3-jsonpatch  python3-jsonschema python3-oauthlib python3-requests python3-six python3-yaml python3-serial
    3. cd /tmp
    4. wget http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cloud-init/cloud-init_18.5-45-g3554ffe8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1_all.deb
    5. wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cloud-utils/cloud-guest-utils_0.29-1_all.deb
    6. dpkg -i cloud-guest-utils_0.29-1_all.deb
    7. dpkg -i cloud-init_18.3-5_all.deb
Posted by Bram in chef, debian, digitalocean, opscode, vmware
12
Dec
2014

tugboat gem

Recently i was writing tests for all my chef cookbooks and it became time for testing them.

There are a lot of options to test everything, i chose  to use digitalocean to test everything.

I found a nice little gem called tugboat which gives you all the regions and images that are available.

To install the gem just run “gem install tugboat” and then run “tugboat authorize”

The authorize steps will ask you some api questions, like what is your client key and your api key.

To find both keys you’ll need to go to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/api_access

Click on the generate key button to get your api key. Don’t mix this with the apps & api link in the default menu, as these keys won’t work.

Posted by Bram in chef, opscode, tugboat