Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#1

Post by Deivuh » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:45 PM UTC

Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X
davidhsiehlo.com

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#2

Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 4:09 PM UTC

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

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#3

Post by oatmealsnap » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

Thanks! Was wondering who would make this first.

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#4

Post by gurujust1n » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

Nice! I saw the one for Ubuntu and thinking we needed one for Mac, thanks again!

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#5

Post by bananas » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#6

Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

bananas wrote: post #5

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

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?

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#7

Post by travelton » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:03 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/ )

And if it supported the monitoring services for Cloud providers. Looks like I found a new weekend project!

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#8

Post by eridius » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

bananas wrote: post #5

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

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?

Unless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use.

[1]: https://github.com/linode/cli

Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#9

Post by rschmitty » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

bananas wrote: post #5

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

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?

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

Re: Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

#10

Post by bananas » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

bananas wrote: post #5

Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.

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?