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doctl databases replica promote

Generated on 9 Apr 2025 from doctl version v1.124.0

Usage

doctl databases replica promote <database-cluster-id> <replica-name> [flags]

Aliases

Description

Promotes a read-only database replica to become its own independent primary cluster. Promoted replicas no longer stay in sync with primary cluster they were forked from.

This command requires that you pass in the replica’s name, which you can retrieve by querying a database ID:

doctl databases replica list <database-cluster-id>

This command requires the ID of a database cluster, which you can retrieve by calling:

doctl databases list

Example

The following example promotes a read-only replica named example-replica for a database cluster with the ID ca9f591d-f38h-5555-a0ef-1c02d1d1e35:

doctl databases replica promote ca9f591d-f38h-5555-a0ef-1c02d1d1e35 example-replica

Flags

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

Command	Description
doctl databases replica	Display commands to manage read-only database replicas

Global Flags

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`