buildServerForTestingAndCodingExercise

Ansible script and supporting files to build (and destroy) servers for WorkAndPlay's "Write Code to Satisfy Tests" exercise at https://github.com/workroomprds/handsonlab/blob/master/write%20code%20to%20satisfy%20tests.md

• A local install of Ansible
• A DigitalOcean account
• An API key for your DO account
• A file /vars/sensitive.yml containing the DO API key in a field called do_token
• An SSH key, which you have stored on your local machine and have added to your DO account
• A file /vars/sshInfo.ymlcontaining the SSH key name in do_ssh_key_name and the local path in local_private_ssh_key
• A file droplets.yml containing an array of droplet names
• Changes to the Ansible hosts file and the ansible.cfg file to make them match what you have
• Ansible on a DO server referred to in the hosts file.

(and perhaps more...)

(to do: add links to the sources I used to get familiar with DigitalOcean, their API and their tokens, and how to set up and add a new SSH key)

ansible-playbook makeDroplets.yml to build the server(s).

You may need to run it more than once – if DO's API/DNS/back end is being flaky, or if the server takes a while to arrive, this script will fail. Ansible tries to be idempotent; running the script a second time will pick up the resources it make the first time, and carry on from there.

ansible-playbook destroyDroplets.yml to destroy the servers once built.