Digital Ocean
Estimated reading time: 2 minutesCreate Docker machines on Digital Ocean.
You need to create a personal access token under “Apps & API” in the Digital Ocean
Control Panel and pass that to docker-machine create with the --digitalocean-access-token option.
Usage
$ docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=aa9399a2175a93b17b1c86c807e08d3fc4b79876545432a629602f61cf6ccd6b test-this
When explicitly passing environment variables
export DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN="yourtoken"; export DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_FINGERPRINT="from your DO's profile security-ssh keys"; \ export DIGITALOCEAN_IMAGE="centos-7-x64"; export DIGITALOCEAN_REGION="tor1"
$ docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token $DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN --digitalocean-ssh-key-fingerprint $DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_FINGERPRINT --digitalocean-image $DIGITALOCEAN_IMAGE --digitalocean-region $DIGITALOCEAN_REGION
When passing a boolean value to any option
$ docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=aa9399a2175a93b17b1c86c807e08d3fc4b79876545432a629602f61cf6ccd6b --digitalocean-size 1gb --digitalocean-backups=true test-this
Options
--digitalocean-access-token: required. Your personal access token for the Digital Ocean API.--digitalocean-backups: Enable Digital Ocean backups for the droplet.--digitalocean-image: The name of the Digital Ocean image to use.--digitalocean-ipv6: Enable IPv6 support for the droplet.--digitalocean-monitoring: Enable monitoring for the droplet.--digitalocean-private-networking: Enable private networking support for the droplet.--digitalocean-region: The region to create the droplet in, see Regions API for how to get a list.--digitalocean-size: The size of the Digital Ocean droplet (larger than default options are of the form2gb).--digitalocean-ssh-key-fingerprint: Use an existing SSH key instead of creating a new one, see SSH keys.--digitalocean-ssh-key-path: SSH private key path.--digitalocean-ssh-port: SSH port.--digitalocean-ssh-user: SSH username.--digitalocean-tags: Comma-separated list of tags to apply to the Droplet, see Droplet tagging--digitalocean-userdata: Path to file containing User Data for the droplet.
The DigitalOcean driver uses ubuntu-16-04-x64 as the default image.
Environment variables and default values
| CLI option | Environment variable | Default | 
|---|---|---|
--digitalocean-access-token | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN | 
      - | 
--digitalocean-backups | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_BACKUPS | 
      false | 
    
--digitalocean-image | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_IMAGE | 
      ubuntu-16-04-x64 | 
    
--digitalocean-ipv6 | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_IPV6 | 
      false | 
    
--digitalocean-private-networking | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_PRIVATE_NETWORKING | 
      false | 
    
--digitalocean-region | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_REGION | 
      nyc3 | 
    
--digitalocean-size | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_SIZE | 
      s-1vcpu-1gb | 
    
--digitalocean-ssh-key-fingerprint | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_FINGERPRINT | 
      - | 
--digitalocean-ssh-key-path | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_KEY_PATH | 
      - | 
--digitalocean-ssh-port | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_PORT | 
      22 | 
--digitalocean-ssh-user | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_SSH_USER | 
      root | 
    
--digitalocean-tags | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_TAGS | 
      - | 
--digitalocean-userdata | 
      DIGITALOCEAN_USERDATA | 
      - | 
--digitalocean-monitoring | 
      $DIGITALOCEAN_MONITORING | 
      false |