Veilid Terraform

details at https://veilid.com/

Running veilid nodes is super cool, and I wanted an easy way to do it across multiple regions in Digital Ocean, so depending on your appetite, you can spawn a bunch of these all over the place if you want.

Cost

Each of the droplets here costs about $4/month, and since Digital Ocean doesn't charge extra for IPv4 addresses in use, the default configuration is running dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6).

Running the commands

1. grab an access token at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens, and then copy .env.example to .env and add the value of the token there.

For scopes, select "Custom Scopes" and give it all access for the Droplets and Firewalls API (see screenshot below):

2. Add your public SSH key to the cloud-init script, in setup-veilid.yaml inside the ssh_authorized_keys: block

3. Decide which region(s) you want to run a veilid node in, and uncomment the relevant line(s) in the locals.regions block in main.tf. As mentioned, not all regions support the smalles droplet size currently selected.

4. Add your public ssh key in the ssh_authorized_keys section in setup-veilid.yaml. If you don't care about SSH access, just skip this step.

If you want to use a separate SSH key, then generate one in this folder like ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -o -a 100 -f veilid-key. Then, make sure to update setup-veilid.yaml with the key contents.

5. then you can run terraform init && terraform apply and get a/some shiny new node(s)!

You'll see the IP addresses to connect to in the output of the above command:

Outputs:

public_ipv4 = [
  "146.190.108.112",
  "170.64.227.40",
]
public_ipv6 = [
  "2400:6180:0:d0::3ed:e001",
  "2400:6180:10:200::d0:b000",
]

NOTE: since the cloud init script takes a bit of time to run, if you SSH in immediately, you might not have access to the veilid-cli command for a few minutes.