doctl Command Line Interface (CLI)

doctl is the official DigitalOcean command line interface (CLI).

Features

doctl allows you to interact with the DigitalOcean API via the command line. It supports most functionality found in the control panel. You can create, configure, and destroy DigitalOcean resources like Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, firewalls, load balancers, database clusters, domains, and more.

Official doctl builds are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Documentation

Resources

doctl is open source software. Find the source code or report issues at the digitalocean/doctl repository on GitHub.

Find additional tutorials on the DigitalOcean community site:

• How To Work with DigitalOcean Load Balancers Using doctl
• How To Secure Web Server Infrastructure With DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls Using doctl
• How To Work with DigitalOcean Block Storage Using doctl

Limits

• doctl does not support the DigitalOcean Spaces API. However, because the Spaces API is S3-compatible, you can use S3-compatible command line tools like s3cmd to manage Spaces.

Latest Updates

6 May 2021

• Released v1.60.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release introduces an auth remove sub-command to simplify removing an auth context when managing multiple accounts. The databases user reset sub-command now supports resetting the user password for all database engine types.

13 April 2021

• Released v1.59.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a new apps propose sub-command and improvements to the apps spec validate sub-command.

29 March 2021

• Released v1.58.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a --wait flag to the apps create-deployment command which blocks until the deployment is complete. By default, the registry kubernetes-manifest now generates a manifest that applies the secret to all the namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster using the DOSecret operator.

For more information, see the full release notes.