alpine/doctl repository overview

⁠DigitalOcean tools

DigitalOcean tool images with necessary tools, it can be used as normal kubectl or doctl command line as well.

Image tag is kubectl version, not doctl version

⁠Installed tools

• doctl⁠ (latest release, when run the build)
• kubectl⁠ (latest release, when run the build)
• helm⁠ (latest release, when run the build)
• pv-migrate⁠ (latest release, when run the build)
• General tools, such as bash, curl
• Recommend any other tools by raise PR.

⁠Github Repo

https://github.com/alpine-docker/doctl⁠

⁠build logs

https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/alpine-docker/doctl⁠

⁠Docker image tags

https://hub.docker.com/r/alpine/doctl/tags/⁠

⁠Why we need it

Mostly it is used during CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) or as part of an automated build/deployment

⁠A sample for you to use it in CICD

Make sure you have set a secret variable DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN in its pipeline, with below pipeline, you can

jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: alpine/doctl:1.22.2
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: helm_chart_deployment
          command: |
            # doctl authenticating
            doctl auth init -t ${DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN}
            # run other doctl command if required
            apk add jq
            # save Kube config
            id=$(doctl kubernetes cluster list -o  json |jq -r  .[].id)
            doctl kubernetes cluster kubeconfig save ${id}
            # deploy a helm chart
            cd charts/application_name
            helm upgrade --install my-release .

⁠Involve with developing and testing

If you want to build these images by yourself, please follow below commands.

export REBUILD=true
bash ./build.sh

⁠schedule builds

Build job runs daily by CircleCI⁠