DigitalOcean Load Balancers are a fully-managed, highly available network load balancing service. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets, which decouples the overall health of a backend service from the health of a single server to ensure that your services stay online.
The DigitalOcean API lets you manage DigitalOcean resources programmatically using conventional HTTP requests. All the functionality available in the DigitalOcean Control Panel is also available through the API.
You can use the API to create, delete, and manage load balancers.
doctl is a command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API and supports many of the same actions.
doctl supports managing load balancers from the command line. See the doctl documentation or use doctl compute load-balancer --help for more information.