How to Reassign or Unassign Reserved IPs

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

                 doctl compute reserved-ip-action assign <reserved-ip> <droplet-id> [flags]
               

   The following example assigns the reserved IP address 203.0.113.25 to a Droplet with the ID 386734086

                      doctl compute reserved-ip-action assign 203.0.113.25 386734086
                   

To reassign 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/{reserved_ip}/actions

   cURL

   To reassign a reserved IP with cURL, call:

   
                   # Assign a Reserved IP to a Droplet
   curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     -d '{"type":"assign","droplet_id":8219222}' \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/45.55.96.47/actions"
   
   # Unassign a Reserved IP
   # curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     -d '{"type":"unassign"}' \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/45.55.96.47/actions"

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To reassign 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()
   
     // Assign a Reserved IP to a Droplet
       action, _, err := client.ReservedIPActions.Assign(ctx, "45.55.96.47", 8219222)
   
     // Unassign a Reserved IP
     // action, _, err := client.ReservedIPActions.Unassign(ctx, "45.55.96.47")  
   }

   Ruby

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

   
                   require 'droplet_kit'
   token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
   client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)
   
   # Assign a Reserved IP to a Droplet
   client.reserved_ip_actions.assign(ip: '45.55.96.47', droplet_id: 8219222)
   
   # Unassign a Reserved IP
   # client.reserved_ip_actions.unassign(ip: '45.55.96.47')

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   req={
     "type": "unassign"
   }
   
   resp = client.reserved_ips_actions.post(reserved_ip="49.32.13.21", body=req)