I am trying to create a droplet using a previously created snapshot but I need to use the snapshot’s name instead of its id.
Is that possible? If not, how can I automatically grab the snapshot id after listing all my snapshots, based on its name?
Hello!
You can create a droplet from a snapshot and you should be able to use the snapshot’s name as well.
Once you’ve created the snapshot you can simply follow these steps:
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for explaining this. This is an example doctl command to create droplet from a snapshot:
doctl compute droplet create newdroplet --size 2gb --image debian-8-x64 --region nyc1
To create a new Droplet from an image, first you need to get the unique image ID using the below command.
doctl compute image list-user
Then you can create the new Droplet from the image with the image ID.
doctl compute droplet create testserver --size 1gb --image imageID --region nyc1
And of course you need to replace the imageID with the image ID you want to use.
I’m sorry for the delay. Did you tried using the following command:
doctl compute droplet create newdroplet –size 2gb –image debian-8-x64 –region nyc1
where newdroplet is the name of your droplet (you can choose anything you want).
Let me know how it goes.
It doesn’t work. I am aware that I’m required to specify the image ID, but I am wondering if it’s possible to use the image’s name instead of the ID.