How to Create Reserved IPs

To create a Reserved IP 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, create a Reserved IP with doctl compute reserved-ip create. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl compute reserved-ip create [flags]
               

   The following example creates a reserved IP address in the nyc1 region and assigns it to a Droplet with the ID 386734086

                      doctl compute reserved-ip create --region nyc1 --droplet-id 386734086
                   

To create a Reserved IP using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

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

2. Send a POST request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips

   cURL

   To create a Reserved IP with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     -d '{"droplet_id": 123456}' \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips" 

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To create a Reserved IP 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()
   
       createRequest := &godo.ReservedIPCreateRequest{
           DropletID: 123456,
   
       }
   }

   Ruby

   Ruby developers can use DropletKit, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Ruby. To create a Reserved IP with DropletKit, use the following code:

   
                   require 'droplet_kit'
   token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
   client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)
   
   reserved_ip = DropletKit::ReservedIp.new(droplet_id: 123456)
   client.reserved_ips.create(reserved_ip) 

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   req = {
     "droplet_id": 2457247
   }
   
   resp = client.reserved_ips.create(body=req)