Managing your DigitalOcean droplets with Knife and Docker
Preparation in OSx
brew install boot2docker
boot2docker init
boot2docker up
Prepare your Dockerfile
There is a quite forward
FROM ubuntu:15.04
MAINTAINER kevit
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
wget
RUN wget https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chefdk_0.6.0-1_amd64.deb
RUN dpkg -i chefdk_0.6.0-1_amd64.deb
ENV PATH="/opt/chefdk/bin:/root/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin:/opt/chefdk/embedded/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
ENV GEM_ROOT="/opt/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0"
ENV GEM_HOME="/root/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0"
ENV GEM_PATH="/root/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.1.0:/opt/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0"
RUN gem install knife-digital_ocean
ENTRYPOINT ["knife"]
Building image and running knife
docker build -t digital-ocean .
docker run -t -v ~/.chef/knife.rb:/root/.chef/knife.rb:ro -i digital-ocean digital_ocean -VV account info
All parameters for knife you can find in documentation for the knife module
Debug:
error in run: Failed to initialize machine "boot2docker-vm": exit status 1
rm -rfi ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/boot2docker-vm/
docker ps FATA[0000] Error response from daemon: client and server don't have same version (client : 1.17, server: 1.16)
boot2docker upgrade
You can clone my git repo with Dockerfile and updated readme