Preparing to work with DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean has a very minimal setup. Some of the Ansible modules requires the dopy Python module.

How to do it...

The dopy Python module can be used for various DigitalOcean operations, so we have to install one dependency:

$ pip install dopy

Just like other Ansible modules for cloud providers, DigitalOcean modules need to interact with DigitalOcean APIs. Along with dopy, we need an authentication token from DigitalOcean to interact with its API:

1. To generate a token, we need to visit the API settings URL in the DigitalOcean dashboard (https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens).
2. Click on the Generate New Token button. A form will ask us for the name of the token and scope.
3. Since...