Baby Buddy Digital Ocean Droplet

This repository is used to configure and a build the Baby Buddy droplet for the Digital Ocean marketplace 1-click apps.

Configuration and settings are based on Digital Ocean's Django 1-click droplet example.

Build

1. Clone and open this repository as a devcontainer

2. Create a DigitalOcean personal access token and set it to the DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN environment variable

3. Set the branch or tag name to use for the build in marketplace-image.json under variables.branch_or_tag

4. Run packer build marketplace-image.json

Troubleshooting

Add the -debug flag when building for debugging: packer build -debug marketplace-image.json

In debug mode once the remote instance is instantiated, Packer will emit to the current directory an ephemeral private SSH key as a .pem file. Using that you can ssh -i <key.pem> into the remote build instance and see what is going on for debugging. The key will only be emitted for cloud-based builders. The ephemeral key will be deleted at the end of the Packer run during cleanup.

See: Debugging Packer Builds

Provisioning step had errors

See: Shell provisioner with cloud-init fails on Ubuntu 24.04