DigitalOcean API Endpoint for IPv6
Use the DigitalOcean API to enable IPv6 addresses for Droplets.
IPv6 Reference
Validated on 19 Jun 2018 • Last edited on 17 Jun 2025
IP addresses let machines communicate across a network. DigitalOcean Droplets are assigned IPv4 addresses by default. Enabling IPv6 on a Droplet gives you access to its 16 additional IPv6 addresses.
The DigitalOcean API lets you manage resources programmatically with standard HTTP requests. All actions available in the control panel are also available through the API.
doctl is the command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API. It supports most of the same actions available in the API and DigitalOcean Control Panel.
doctl supports enabling IPv6 addresses from the command line. See the doctl documentation or use doctl compute droplet-action enable-ipv6 --help for more information.