DigitalOcean

kitchen-digitalocean is a Test Kitchen driver for DigitalOcean that runs against the DigitalOcean V2 API.

Setting Driver Configuration

The DigitalOcean driver for Test Kitchen includes many configuration options that can be set globally in the driver section of your kitchen.yml config file or within each platform configuration. Global settings apply to all platforms in the kitchen.yml, while platform level driver configuration is applied to only those platforms and override globally set configuration options. Even if you use platform level configuration options, it’s a good idea to specify the driver you use to use globally.

Example Global Driver Option

This configuration sets the driver to digitalocean and then sets the some_config configuration to true.

driver:
  name: digitaloean
  some_config: true

Example Platform Driver Option

This configuration sets the driver to digitalocean globally and then sets the some_config configuration to true for just ubuntu-20.

driver:
  name: digitaloean

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-20
    driver:
      some_config: true

Driver Configuration Options

digitalocean_access_token

The digitalocean_access_token configuration option is used to communicate with the DigitalOcean API to provision the droplets for testing. You can also set this with the DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN environmental variable before running Test Kitchen to avoid storing secrets in your kitchen.yml config.

ssh_key_ids

The ssh_key_ids configuration option is used to control the ssh key pair to assign to the Droplets when they are created. You can also set this with the DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_IDS environmental variable before running Test Kitchen to avoid storing secrets in your kitchen.yml config.

Note that your SSH_KEY_ID must be the numeric id of your ssh key, not the symbolic name. To get the numeric ID of your keys, use something like the following command to get them from the digital ocean API:

curl -X GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN"

server_name

The server_name configuration option allows you to specify the hostname of the Droplet. By default, the hostname is set to the combination of base name, username, hostname, random string as well as separators.

For example to set the hostname provide the server_name attribute

driver:
  server_name: my_server

image

The image configuration option allows you to control the operating system of the Droplet. DigitalOcean features many different images for creating Droplets that can be used by specifying the following image names:

centos-7
centos-8
debian-9
debian-10
fedora-32
fedora-33
freebsd-11
freebsd-12
rancheros
ubuntu-16
ubuntu-18
ubuntu-20

For example to build a system using Ubuntu 20.04:

platforms:
  - name: my_system
    image: ubuntu-20

If the image configuration option is not specified Test Kitchen will attempt to use the platform name value for the image instead:

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-20

size

The size configuration option allows you to specify the Droplet size. By default all instances are created as s-1vcpu-1gb which is a single CPU with 1GB RAM and 25GB of disk. For a current list of Droplet sizes and their API name see slugs.do-api.dev.

region

The size configuration option allows you to control the region where the Droplet is configured. By default your droplets will be built in the nyc1 region. This configuration option can be set with the configuration option or by setting the DIGITALOCEAN_REGION env var. The env var is useful to allow teams with developers across different regions to test within their own geographic region without hard coding configs.

export DIGITALOCEAN_REGION="tor1"

This allows further customization by allowing overrides at the driver level and the platform level.

# DIGITALOCEAN_REGION="tor1" # set as an env var

# cookbook1/.kitchen.yml
---
driver:
  name: digitalocean
  region: sgp1

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-18
  - name: ubuntu-20
    region: sfo1

# cookbook2/.kitchen.yml
---
driver:
  name: digitalocean

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-18
  - name: ubuntu-20
    region: sfo1

The above configuration when fully tested would create the following images in their respective regions.

Available Region Values

ams2: Amsterdam 2
ams3: Amsterdam 3
blr1: Bangalore 1
fra1: Frankfurt 1
lon1: London 1
nyc1: New York 1
nyc3: New York 3
sfo1: San Francisco 1
sfo2: San Francisco 2
sfo3: San Francisco 2
sgp1: Singapore 1
tor1: Toronto 1

For the most up-to-date list of regions supported by DigitalOcean see Regions at slugs.do-api.dev

private_networking

Private networking is enabled by default, but will only work in certain regions. You can disable private networking by changing private_networking to false. Example below.

driver:
  - private_networking: false

ipv6

IPv6 is disabled by default, you can enable this if needed. IPv6 is only available in limited regions.

driver:
  - ipv6: true

monitoring

DigitalOcean provides a monitoring agent that you can optionally install on your droplet. To enable this feature, set the monitoring attribute to true.

driver:
  - monitoring: true

firewalls

To create the droplet with firewalls, provide a pre-existing firewall ID as a string or list of strings.

driver:
  firewalls:
    - 7a489167-a3d5-4d93-9f4a-371bd02ea8a3
    - 624c1408-f101-4b59-af64-99c7f7560f7a

driver:
  firewalls: 624c1408-f101-4b59-af64-99c7f7560f7a

Note that your firewalls must be the numeric ids of your firewall. To get the numeric ID, use something like to the following command to get them from the DigitalOcean API:

curl -X GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/firewalls -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN"

vpcs

To create the droplet with a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), provide a pre-existing VPC ID as a string.

driver:
  vpcs:
    - 3a92ae2d-f1b7-4589-81b8-8ef144374453

Note that your vpc_uuid must be the numeric ids of your vpc. To get the numeric ID, use something like the following command to get them from the DigitalOcean API:

curl -X GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/vpcs -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Example kitchen.yml

---
driver:
  name: digitalocean

provisioner:
  name: chef_infra

verifier:
  name: inspec

platforms:
  - name: ubuntu-20
  - name: ubuntu-18
    region: sfo1
    driver:
      tags:
        - test-kitchen-instance
      monitoring: true # disabled by default
      vpcs:
        - 3a92ae2d-f1b7-4589-81b8-8ef144374453
      ipv6: true # disabled by default
      private_networking: false # enabled by default

suites:
  - name: default
    run_list:
      - recipe[my_cookbook::default]
    attributes: