Reserved IP Reference
Validated on 4 Jul 2021 • Last edited on 17 Jun 2025
DigitalOcean Reserved IPs are publicly-accessible static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Assign and reassign reserved IP addresses to Droplets as needed, or implement an automated failover mechanism with reserved IPs to build a high availability infrastructure.
The DigitalOcean API
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.
You can use the API to create, list, and delete reserved IP addresses. You can also manage specific reserved IP addresses using the API, such as assigning or unassigning them.
The DigitalOcean Command Line Client, doctl
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 managing reserved IP addresses from the command line. See the doctl documentation or use doctl compute reserved-ip --help for more information.