DigitalOcean provides several command-line interfaces (CLIs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing your resources. This section provides the reference materials for these offerings, as well as resources from the open source community.

API

Programmatically manage your Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources using conventional HTTP requests. You can use our RESTful APIs for any action that you can perform through the control panel.

doctl CLI

Manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line with doctl, our open-source command line interface (CLI).

Terraform

Deploy and change many resources simultaneously using the open source Terraform tool.

Libraries

Official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.

Open Source

We use and contribute to open source software.

Latest Updates

8 August 2022

• Rocky 8.6 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

12 July 2022

• The DigitalOcean API now supports listing Droplets by name by using the name query parameter, as in GET /v2/droplets?name="your_droplet_name". Learn more in the API documentation.

7 July 2022

• Fedora 34 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 34 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 34 image from the platform on 7 August 2022.

For more information, see the full release notes.