February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 51m
English
Content preview from Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook
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How to do it...
- Let's download the doctl tool from GitHub's release page (https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/releases/tag/v1.7.1) and extract the archive in the binary path, such as /usr/bin:
$ wget https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/releases/download/v1.7.1/doctl-1.7.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz$ tar -xzvf doctl-1.7.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz$ mv doctl /usr/bin/$ chmod +x /usr/bin/doctl
- Using doctl, we can query DigitalOcean as to whether a droplet exists. We will use this to create idempotency for our task. We should start by listing the instances:
- name: check for the droplet shell: doctl compute droplet list --output json --access-token "{{ DO_OAUTH_TOKEN }}" register: droplets
- Executing the preceding task will get us a list of existing ...
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