How to Destroy a Droplet from the DigitalOcean Control Panel

To destroy a Droplet via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

                 doctl auth init
               

4. Finally, destroy a Droplet with doctl compute droplet delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl compute droplet delete <droplet-id|droplet-name>... [flags]
               

To destroy a Droplet using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/{droplet_id}

   cURL

   To destroy a Droplet with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X DELETE \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/3164494"

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To destroy a Droplet with Godo, use the following code:

   
                   import (
       "context"
       "os"
   
       "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
   )
   
   func main() {
       token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")
   
       client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
       ctx := context.TODO()
   
       _, err := client.Droplets.Delete(ctx, 3164494)
   }

   Ruby

   Ruby developers can use DropletKit, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Ruby. To destroy a Droplet with DropletKit, use the following code:

   
                   require 'droplet_kit'
   token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
   client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)
   
   client.droplets.delete(id: 3164494)

To destroy a Droplet and its associated resources using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/{droplet_id}/destroy_with_associated_resources/dangerous

   cURL

   To destroy a Droplet and its associated resources with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X DELETE -H "X-Dangerous: true" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/187000742/destroy_with_associated_resources/dangerous"