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Developer Reference

Learn about DigitalOcean's APIs, CLI, Terraform provider, and open source contributions.

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.

7 articles

doctl CLI

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

2 articles

Terraform

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

2 articles

Libraries

Collection of libraries for DigitalOcean API.

Open Source

We use and contribute to open source software.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

FreeBSD 12.1 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the FreeBSD UFS and ZFS image via the API. We will remove the images from the platform on 11 March 2021.

9 July 2021

Released v1.62.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release fixes a handful of bugs and introduces new flags on existing commands:
- The apps logs command now supports tailing live logs with the --tail flag. This lets application owners select the most recent logs from their applications
- The --wait flag was added to apps create and apps update to block these commands until an application is fully created or updated

29 June 2021

v2.10.1 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release adds bug fixes and other improvements.
v2.10.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release adds support for Kubernetes maintenance policies.

28 June 2021

The Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 32 images have been removed from the API.

For more information, see the full release notes.