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Tugboat

By Moisey Uretsky

Published: April 15, 2013
1 min read

Never leave the command line again! Introducing Tugboat, a command line tool for interacting with your DigitalOcean droplets. Tugboat was kindly created by our friend, Jack Pearkes from Berlin.

Once you have Tugboat installed and configured you’ll easily be able to:

Retrieve a list of your droplets
SSH into a droplet
Create a droplet
Pull more information about your droplet
Destroy, restart, and shutdown a droplet
Take a snapshot of a droplet

Click here to learn how to install and configure Tugboat.

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Tugboat

By Moisey Uretsky

Published: April 15, 2013
1 min read

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Never leave the command line again! Introducing Tugboat, a command line tool for interacting with your DigitalOcean droplets. Tugboat was kindly created by our friend, Jack Pearkes from Berlin.

Once you have Tugboat installed and configured you’ll easily be able to:

Retrieve a list of your droplets
SSH into a droplet
Create a droplet
Pull more information about your droplet
Destroy, restart, and shutdown a droplet
Take a snapshot of a droplet

Click here to learn how to install and configure Tugboat.

About the author

Moisey Uretsky

Author

Community

Start building today

From GPU-powered inference and Kubernetes to managed databases and storage, get everything you need to build, scale, and deploy intelligent applications.

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