How to Schedule Automatic Software Updates for MySQL Database Clusters

To set a maintenance window via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

                 doctl auth init
               

4. Finally, set a maintenance window with doctl databases maintenance-window update. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl databases maintenance-window update <database-cluster-id> [flags]
               

   The following example updates the maintenance window for a database cluster with the ID ca9f591d-f38h-5555-a0ef-1c02d1d1e35

                      doctl databases maintenance-window update ca9f591d-f38h-5555-a0ef-1c02d1d1e35 --day tuesday --hour 16
                   

To set a maintenance window using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a PUT request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/maintenance

   cURL

   To set a maintenance window with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X PUT \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     -d '{"day": "tuesday", "hour": "14:00"}' \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases/9cc10173-e9ea-4176-9dbc-a4cee4c4ff30/maintenance"

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To set a maintenance window with Godo, use the following code:

   
                   import (
       "context"
       "os"
   
       "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
   )
   
   func main() {
       token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")
   
       client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
       ctx := context.TODO()
   
       maintenanceRequest := &godo.DatabaseUpdateMaintenanceRequest{
           Day:  "thursday",
           Hour: "16:00",
       }
   
       _, err := client.Databases.UpdateMaintenance(ctx, "88055188-9e54-4f21-ab11-8a918ed79ee2", maintenanceRequest)
   }

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   req = {
     "day": "tuesday",
     "hour": "14:00"
   }
   
   update_resp = client.databases.update_maintenance_window(database_cluster_uuid="a7a8bas", body=req)