Question
Doctl Spinup droplet from previous snapshot
- Posted January 10, 2017
- DigitalOceanLinux CommandsAPIUbuntu
I’ve been trying to spinup droplets from previous snapshots, but the cli command requires the image Slug. is there a way to add a slug to a snapshot ?
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As far as I can see, you can’t add a slug, though you don’t need to provide doctl with a slug to create a new Droplet using a previously generated snapshot, you just need to pass the ID of the snapshot in place of the slug.
So, for example, I pulled a list of images using:
doctl compute image list
The last image in the list was a snapshot I created before running that command. I then took the ID of that image and passed it to the create command and it created a new droplet using the snapshot.
doctl compute droplet create name --size 8gb --image ID_OF_IMAGE --region nyc1 --ssh-keys FP_SSHKEY
Just sub out ID_OF_IMAGE with the image ID of your snapshot and FP_SSHKEY with the fingerprint for your SSH Key.
