Usage

beauty_ocean was designed to be used not only as a cli command (via the excellent python library click) but also as a function call as well. Assuming that beauty_ocean is already installed inside your virtualenv’s dev-dependencies (or globally) then in your terminal:

$ droplet

# or
$ droplet --token DIGITAL_OCEAN_API_TOKEN_ENV_NAME

# or
$ droplet --token path/to/file/that/holds/the/token

# or
$ droplet --token THE_ACTUAL_API_TOKEN_HERE

# want help?
$ droplet --help

beauty_ocean accepts one option -t (short version) or --token (long version) which can either be:

1. an environment variable name which holds the DigitalOcean API Token (default: DO_TOKEN)
2. a file name (which contains only the DigitalOcean API Token) or
3. the actual DigitalOcean API Token itself

The recommended way to use this tool is to provide an environment variable name to the --token option. If the option is omitted, beauty_ocean will look in your environment variables for DO_TOKEN. If not found, it will raise a ValueError.

The steps that beauty_ocean takes to resolve to an API Token are described below, by priority:

Assuming that you entered: droplet -t ABCDEF then:

1. it will look for an env var named "ABCDEF".
2. fail that, it will look for a file in the current dir named "ABCDEF"
3. fail that, it will use the string "ABCDEF" as the DigitalOcean API Token

Once, a valid token is provided then beauty_ocean will initiate a list of questions like the droplet’s region, image, size, name etc and once all these questions have been answered, a final confirmation dialog will be displayed in order to create the droplet.

Finally, a json string will be returned with all the droplet data at your disposal to use it in any way you want.

DEMO

I built this tool to enhance automation of Digital Ocean’s droplet(s). Future work will include the extension of this tool to automate DNS and Networks.