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doctl compute load-balancer

Generated on 20 Oct 2025 from doctl version v1.146.0

Aliases

lb

The sub-commands of doctl compute load-balancer manage your load balancers.

With the load-balancer command, you can list, create, or delete load balancers, and manage their configuration details.

Option	Description
`--help`, `-h`	Help for this command

Command	Description
doctl compute	Display commands that manage infrastructure
doctl compute load-balancer add-droplets	Add Droplets to a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer add-forwarding-rules	Add forwarding rules to a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer create	Create a new load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer delete	Permanently delete a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer get	Retrieve a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer list	List load balancers
doctl compute load-balancer purge-cache	Purges CDN cache for a global load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer remove-droplets	Remove Droplets from a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer remove-forwarding-rules	Remove forwarding rules from a load balancer
doctl compute load-balancer update	Update a load balancer's configuration

Option	Description
`--access-token`, `-t`	API V2 access token
`--api-url`, `-u`	Override default API endpoint
`--config`, `-c`	Specify a custom config file Default:
`--context`	Specify a custom authentication context name
`--http-retry-max`	Set maximum number of retries for requests that fail with a 429 or 500-level error Default: `5`
`--http-retry-wait-max`	Set the minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `30`
`--http-retry-wait-min`	Set the maximum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `1`
`--interactive`	Enable interactive behavior. Defaults to true if the terminal supports it (default false) Default: `false`
`--output`, `-o`	Desired output format [text\|json] Default: `text`
`--trace`	Show a log of network activity while performing a command Default: `false`
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output Default: `false`