The DigitalOcean droplets nobody wants to work through
Your DigitalOcean, worked while you do something else: 2 reads to go through it, 4 writes to change it, and a card in front of every one of those changes.
Open the droplet. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the DigitalOcean afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a droplet until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what DigitalOcean exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 6 operations, 2 reads and 4 writes. In practice that means it can create a snapshot, create a droplet and create an a new domain, and work across the droplets, new domains and snapshots.
The DigitalOcean API stops at DigitalOcean. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the droplets or ask you for them?
2 of the 6 operations are reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can turn on/off droplet and list all droplets, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from DigitalOcean's documentation.
The droplets are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the new domains. A companion can hold all 6 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of DigitalOcean admin becomes a queue you review.
- Turn on/off Droplet
- List all Droplets
Who signs off on a new new domain?
All 4 write operations wait for you.
A companion can create a snapshot, create a droplet and create an a new domain, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the droplet, the field and the new value before it lands in DigitalOcean.
Nothing in DigitalOcean is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the droplet exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Create Snapshot
- Create Droplet
- Create a new domain
- Add SSH Key
Does the droplet sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the DigitalOcean droplets pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The product and engineering playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the infrastructure checks, the DigitalOcean droplets sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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