Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

bananas wrote: post #10

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?

Versus click the bookmark to your droplet list or linode list? Or do your service maintenance via ssh on the box?

Post by rschmitty » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11

rschmitty wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown

I use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation. And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call). Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.

Post by Greenisus » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

Post by andrewchilds » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 7:39 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #2

Neat. I'd love something like this that supported all the major cloud providers (perhaps via libcloud https://libcloud.apache.org/ )

    # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on DigitalOcean
    $ overcast digitalocean create db_01 --cluster db

    # Create a new Ubuntu 14.04 instance on Linode
    $ overcast linode create db_02 --cluster db

    # Configure both instances in parallel
    $ overcast run db install/core install/redis --parallel
    $ overcast expose db 22 6379 --parallel

    # Interact with both instances at once over SSH
    $ overcast ssh db

    # Reboot, snapshot, destroy, etc
    $ overcast digitalocean snapshot db_01 db_01_snapshot
    $ overcast digitalocean reboot db_01
    $ overcast linode destroy db_02

Post by loisaidasam » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

mattnewton wrote: post #17

davidivins wrote: post #13

"This application requires OS X 10.9 or later". Looks awesome though. I'd definitely use it if it ever gets 10.8.5 support.

Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?