How to Delete Reserved IPs

Validated on 15 Nov 2019 • Posted on 4 Feb 2019

A DigitalOcean Reserved IP address is a publicly-accessible static IP address that you can assign to a Droplet and then reassign to another Droplet later, as needed. You can implement a failover mechanism with reserved IPs to build a high availability infrastructure.

Note

The Floating IP service is now called Reserved IPs. The Reserved IP service retains the same functionality as the prior service.

Deleting a reserved IP unassigns it and permanently removes it from your account.

Delete an Assigned IP Using Automation

How to delete a Reserved IP using the DigitalOcean CLI

To delete a Reserved IP via the command-line, follow these steps:

Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.
Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.
Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.
```
              doctl auth init
            
```
Finally, delete a Reserved IP with doctl compute reserved-ip delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:
```
              doctl compute reserved-ip delete <reserved-ip> [flags]
            
```

How to delete a Reserved IP using the DigitalOcean API

To delete a Reserved IP using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

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

Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/{reserved_ip}

cURL

To delete a Reserved IP with cURL, call:


                curl -X DELETE \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/45.55.96.47"

Go

Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To delete a Reserved IP 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.ReservedIPs.Delete(ctx, "45.55.96.34")
}

Ruby

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


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

client.reserved_ips.delete(ip: '45.55.96.47')

Delete an Assigned IP Using the Control Panel

To delete a reserved IP from the control panel, click Networking in the main navigation, then click the Reserved IPs tab. Open the More menu of the reserved IP you want to delete, then click Delete.

In the confirmation window, click Delete Reserved IP to perform the deletion.