Autoscaling for Digital Ocean?

I've started a thread at Digital Ocean. I want to implement such a system (I could not find any). Any questions, recommendations, "don't invent the wheel" comments?) Does any DO customer need such a tool?

I am not a DevOps guru, but it seems like an interesting project. AWS costs almost twice more than analogous DO servers, but AWS has way more features.

DO community thread: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/autoscaling-solutions-for-digital-ocean-are-there-existing-solutions

Of course it will be open source.

I don't know. But I'll figure it out (I hope).

I too have wondered more or less the same, though I have yet to build any projects that need to scale so I haven't turned it into an actual concern for myself as of yet. Hoping you find a solution and share it in here so those of us like me who are curious can learn. It might end up being a mixture of solutions. I can only remember an open source interface that managed multiple cloud providers, not sure if it did any autoscaling, was posted on HN and that's all I remembered, somebody open sourced it but it's description was vague as hell.

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Commented more.

Everything you need is there. Floating IP's to do HA at the front. Use something like HA proxy and monitor whatever it is you need such as response time from the backends. Once that passes a limit call a script to poke the API and provision you a new node. You could use something like Ansible to provision the node and then place it in to load balance.

It wasn't clear to me how to autoscale with DO either. That's why I ended up using Google Cloud Engine. It's not exactly cheaper than AWS, but the pricing model for discounts is WAY simpler at least. It also doesn't have the feature set AWS does, but it does have most of what you'll need like a load balancing service.