I’m trying to create a 2nd Droplet.
When wanting just the OS software installed, through Digital Ocean’s control panel I can Select Image > Linux Distributions tab > and select a Linux OS image, to which another Droplet will be spun. Similarly, when using a cURL statement such as …
… a message is given …
{“status”:“OK”,“droplet”:{“id”:AAAAAA,“name”:“server2”,“image_id”:XXXXXX,“size_id”:66,“event_id”:BBBBBB}}
… and a 2nd Droplet is spun with, again, just the OS software installed.
Furtherer, if wanting to spin a 2nd Droplet as a clone of my 1st server, which already has LAMP and my web pages installed on it; through Digital Ocean’s control panel I can Select Image > My Images tab > and select a snapshot name, to which a new Droplet is spun with all the software included.
At this point I’m not sure how to use a cURL statement, to clone via a Snapshot.
Any answer or direction is appreciated.
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To launch a new droplet based on a snapshot, you’d use the same API call:
You just need to replace the imageid with the ID for your snapshot. To find your image ID, run:
I’d also suggest installing the
jq
command. You can pipe the results to it so that they are printed out nicely: