Setting up a vagrant with a digitalocean image

Question

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How do I get a local (i.e. on my laptop) VM t

Answer 1

It should be possible, I never tried myself (as I switch to EC2) but I saw there was a digital ocean plugin, you can refer to the following page https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-digitalocean-as-your-provider-in-vagrant-on-an-ubuntu-12-10-vps

Basically you would need the following:

1. install the plugin and download the base box

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean
   vagrant box add digital_ocean https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean/raw/master/box/digital_ocean.box
   

2. create the SSH keys needed for authentication with DigitalOcean. Run the following command to generate your SSH key pair:

   ssh-keygen -t rsa
   

   You can accept the defaults by pressing enter. This will place the SSH private and public keys to the path we will specify below in the Vagrantfile configuration.

3. create your Vagrantfile with following minimal configuration

   config.vm.box = "digital_ocean"
   config.ssh.private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
   config.vm.provider :digital_ocean do |provider|
       provider.client_id = "YOUR CLIENT ID"
       provider.api_key = "YOUR API KEY"
       provider.image = "Ubuntu 12.10 x64"
       provider.region = "New York 2"
     end
   

4. run vagrant

   vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean
   

You can refer to above link for additional parameters and fix for some issues you could face