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How to assign a floating IP to a droplet with doctl?

Posted on August 12, 2016

I see there’s a possibility to assign a floating IP to a machine via the digitalocean’s API but I can’t find how to perform the same action with doctl. Is it even possible?



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Hi!

You can assign a floating IP to a Droplet using doctl as follows:

doctl compute floating-ip-action assign <floating-ip> <droplet-id> [flags]

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