I spent the past weekend messing around with Python and a couple of libraries to automate the deployment of droplets to Digital Ocean. The two libraries that I used are python digitalocean and fabric. Python digitalocean opens up the Digital Ocean API to python developers with easy to use functions. Fabric provides a way of connecting to a remote server and issuing various commands, so the combination of the two make for a great automation framework. The script I wrote, uses the python_digitalocean library to first provision the droplet and returns the IP. Then fabric is used to carry out several first time administration tasks that I do when first creating a server.
These are:
- Update the newly provisioned system.
- Create an admin user for the box, and copy my SSH public key to the account.
- Grant sudo privileges to the user that was created above.
- Secure SSH by disabling root logon, password authentication and changing the listening port.
- Configure UFW to only allow connections to the port that SSH is listening on.
- Configure unattended security updates.
Where do I download this script?
I have placed the script on github here. Clone the repo and try it out, let me know if you have any suggestions to extend the script.
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