DNSimple cookbook demo

This is our "booth" demo which stands up a Digital Ocean instance, installs nginx and a demo page then pings the dnsimple API to update the IP address of a domain with the instance IP.

Demo Setup

• curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P chefdk
• chef gem install kitchen-digitalocean
• Set up direnv if you have not already
  • brew install direnv
  • add to your shell with eval "$(direnv hook bash)" or whatever the equivilant is for your shell
• Set up the digital ocean API key (Make sure you create one from the Ops testing team)
  • log into Digital Ocean
  • Click API in the top bar
  • Genrate new token button with a descriptive name
  • run direnv edit . and add this token under export DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN=
• Add an SSH key to your account (an ssh key you can easily load or use is required)
  • click on the profile image on the top right (green D with your image small in the corner)
  • Click Security under developers
  • click add ssh key
  • Paste your key and name it your username for identification & save
  • run ./get_do_key.sh and find the id for your key
  • run direnv edit . and add id number under export DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_IDS=
• A dnsimple account token
  • run direnv edit . and add this token under export DNSIMPLE_ACCESS_TOKEN=
• A test node id in your environment
  • pick a random number and set it in your env
  • run direnv edit . and add this token under export DNSIMPLE_DEMO_ID=
• verify your .envrc file looks like below when you run direnv edit .

env file example

The .envrc file must be in bash no matter what your actual shell is

export DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN=big_long_string
export DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_IDS=int
export DNSIMPLE_ACCESS_TOKEN=token
export DNSIMPLE_DEMO_ID=int

Doing the Demo

Make the magic happen

• ./demo.sh
• show off our cool website just for them

Reset for the next demo

• ./destroy.sh

Manually reset for the next demo

• Login to the operations test account and manually destroy the node, the IP address will get updated on the next chef run