DigitalOcean provides several command-line interfaces (CLIs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing your DigitalOcean resources.
The doctl CLI enables you to manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| How-Tos | Guides on topics like how to install and configure doctl. |
| Reference | A complete reference for every command provided by doctl. |
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| How-Tos | Guides on topics like how to install and configure Terraform. |
| Reference | A complete reference for every DigitalOcean Terraform resource. |
This API lets you programmatically manage your Droplets and other resources using conventional HTTP requests.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Tutorials | A few tutorials on how to authenticate with and use the DigitalOcean API |
| Reference | A reference for the DigitalOcean API |
| Libraries | Client libraries for the DigitalOcean API for various programming languages |
Programmatically manage your data with Spaces’ AWS S3-compatible object storage API.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Reference | A reference for the Spaces API |
The Droplet Metadata API Allows a Droplet to access data about itself, and can be queried by sending a request to the Droplet's metadata endpoint.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Reference | A reference for the Droplet Metadata API |
The DigitalOcean OAuth API enables third-party applications to obtain limited access to DigitalOcean user accounts.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Reference | A reference for the OAuth API |
Fedora 30 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 30 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 30 image from the platform on 8 October 2020.
We recently replaced Standard Droplet plans with Basic Droplet plans. Today, we have deprecated Standard Droplet plans from the API for new users. Existing customers will retain grandfathered access to these plans. See the API changelog for a full list of deprecated plans.
Fedora 31 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 31 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 31 image from the platform on 24 December 2020.
v2.2.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release adds a new digitalocean_ssh_keys data source and a digitalocean_custom_image resource.
Released v1.52.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a --force-rebuild flag to doctl apps create-deployment.
For more information, see the full release notes.