envoi - cloud workstation manager

Warning

This project is currently under development and should not be relied on for any kind of production or critical processes. There is no guarantee that the resources will be created or deleted as expected. Please use with caution.

Description

Sometimes, I need a small Linux VM to test long-running or potentially nasty software. However, I kept running into issues on my M1 Mac with virtualization. I'm a fan of DigitalOcean but I don't like clicking around on their GUI. The DO cli is great, but I wanted something smaller and simpler.

Behold, envoi. With envoi you can easily manage your cloud workstation on DigitalOcean. The application supports

• creating
• deleting
• connecting to virtual machines on Digital Ocean.

Building

To build this project, you can follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have Go installed on your machine. You can download it from the official Go website: https://golang.org/dl/

2. Build the project using the go build command:

   go build

   This will generate the executable in the current directory.

3. Run the executable:

   ./envoi

Usage

Setup

You need to have a valid DigitalOcean token to use envoi. You can generate one under API->Tokens Once you have the token you need to set up an environment variable with export DO_TOKEN=<YOUR API TOKEN>. Alternatively paste the token into a file and set up a configuration parameter for digitalocean.token_path.

Envoi is going to use your SSH public key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. This is configurable with the param ssh.public_key_path.

Commands

• start - Starts your workstation
  • Creates a new droplet
  • Sets up a new SSH key if none exists
  • Creates and attaches a volume (if configured) to the droplet
• delete - Deletes your workstation
  • Deletes the droplet
  • Unattaches the volume and deletes it (if configured)
• stop - Stop your workstation
  • Deletes the droplet only
  • Keeps the volume (if configured)
• status - Prints the status of your workstation
• connect - Connects to the workstation via ssh

Config

You can configure a few things by creating a new file .envoi.conf and placing it next to the envoi executable or in your home directory. You can find all possible configuration keys under internal/util/config.go.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open a PR to fix smaller issues. If you have something bigger in mind, please open an issue and we can discuss it.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.