A little tool I made to reduce the cost of renting a VPS (Digital Ocean). This is heavily inspired by pry0cc/axiom, very cool tool! Whereas Axiom is for managing multiple different instances and has a lot of featutures, I created this to be a simple tool for managing just 1. It's not completely finished as I only drafted it up for personal use at the moment but it has very few dependancies and it makes it easy to quickly deploy a backed up VPS.
One line install
bash <(curl -s https://github.com/raw/kr-b/outpost/master/tools/outpost-init)
At the moment, it uses a snapshot image called "outpost-snapshot", so if you want to use a specific VPS, shut it down and create a snapshot of it with that name and this tool should work out of the box.
This creates a droplet from the saved snapshot image, then deletes the snapshot.
This opens an ssh connection to the created VPS.
Uses scp to push or pull files to and from the server.
This shuts down the server, creates a snapshot and deletes the droplet.