New Domain resources can now be created via the DigitalOcean v2 API without providing an IP address. The previous behavior, which would automatically create an A record pointing to the apex domain, will be retained for backwards-compatibility when an IP address is provided.

This example demonstrates how to create a new domain without providing an IP address:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_API_TOKEN" \
    -d '{"name":"example.com"}' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains"

For more information, see the full Domains API documentation.

The /v2/volumes endpoint has been updated to support automatically formatting the filesystem of newly created Block Storage volumes. Volume resources now expose two new attributes: filesystem_type and filesystem_label. They can be used to specify the filesystem and the label to be applied. Currently, the available filesytem types are ext4 and xfs.

For example, here is a request creating a new volume formatted with an EXT4 filesystem:

  curl -X POST \
    -d '{"name":"volume-nyc3-01","region":"nyc3","filesystem_type":"ext4","filesystem_label":"example","size_gigabytes": 100}' \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
    https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes

Additionally, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Fedora Atomic, and CentOS Droplets created on or after April 26, 2018 will now automatically mount volumes with pre-formatted filesystems when attached. Attaching pre-formatted volumes to other Droplets is not recommended. When the filesystem_type attribute is not provided, volumes will continue to be presented as raw block devices and require additional configuration.

When retrieving an existing Block Storage volume, filesystem_type and filesystem_label will reflect the current filesystem and label used on the volume even if these were applied manually.

For more information, see the full API documentation for Block Storage Volumes.

Today, DigitalOcean released a number of Load Balancer improvements including support for using SSL/TLS certificates automatically generated by Let’s Encrypt. Our Certificate management API has been updated to support automatically generating Let’s Encrypt certificates in addition to uploading custom, user-generated certificates.

A request to generate a new SSL/TLS certificate using Let’s Encrypt would look like:

  curl -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DO_TOKEN" \
    -d '{"name": "le-cert-01", "type": "lets_encrypt", "dns_names": ["www.example.com","example.com"]}' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/certificates"

The new type attribute must be set to lets_encrypt when using Let’s Encrypt. If omitted, it will default to custom in order to maintain backwards compatibility. For additional details, see the Certificate management API reference documentation.

For more information on how to use Let’s Encrypt with DigitalOcean Load Balancers, see this tutorial on our community site.

Today, we announced wide-ranging changes to our Droplet plans, bringing improved resources across the board. These new plans are now available via the API and can be referenced using their respective size slugs.

Size slugs are human-readable strings used to specify the type of Droplet in certain API requests. In the past, size slugs were typically based on the amount of RAM provided with the plan (e.g. 1gb). Moving forward, we are standardizing on a format comprised of the identifier for the Droplet’s class, the vCPU count, and the amount of RAM in order to provide more flexibility in the plans we are able to offer you. For example, our new $5 per month Standard Droplet comes with 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. So its size slug is: s-1vcpu-1gb

Applications and scripts with hard-coded size slugs must be updated to take advantage of these new plans. In order to provide a transition period, 1st Generation Droplet plans will continue to be available via the API using the legacy size slugs. We will provide additional notice before their removal.

The table below shows the new 2nd Generation Standard Droplet plans along with their corresponding size slug. For always up-to-date information on available plans and pricing, please see our pricing page.

Available Droplet plans, the resources they provide, and the size slug used to identify them can be accessed programmatically by querying the /v2/sizes endpoint.

Domain Record resources have been updated to add support for CAA records. As specified in RFC-6844, this record type can be used to specify which certificate authorities (CAs) are permitted to issue certificates for a domain.

For example, in order to restrict TLS/SSL certificate creation for example.com to letsencrypt.org, you would use a request like:

  curl -X POST \
    -d '{"type":"CAA","name":"@","data":"letsencrypt.org.","priority":null,"port":null,"ttl":1800,"flags":0,"tag":"issue"}' \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
    https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/example.com/records

For more information on how to use CAA records, see this tutorial on our community site.

Our API has been extended to support configuring the TTL value for individual domain records. This can be done when creating a new record as well as when updating an existing one via a PUT request. See the domain record documentation for further information.

Our API currently offers the ability to “rename” a tag by sending a PUT request to /v2/tags/$TAG_NAME. Due to low usage and operational complexities involved with its maintenance, we are deprecating this functionality. Beginning April 26th, 2017 all requests to this endpoint will respond with an HTTP status of 410 (Gone). A tag’s name also serves as its unique identifier. We’ve found that the ability to change a tag’s name introduces unneeded complexity. If you need guidance on this transition, please feel free to reach out to the team by opening a support ticket.

You may now pass tags as an attribute when creating one or more new Droplets. This optional parameter will create and apply the specified tag(s) to the newly created Droplet(s). For more information see create Droplet documentation.

API v2 now supports volume snapshots, and exposes a unified snapshot endpoint for volume and Droplet snapshots.

Size objects now contain a size_gigabytes attribute which represents the physical size of the image in gigabytes. For more information see the images documentation.

API v2 now supports tagging and managing tagged droplets.

API v2 now supports creating multiple droplets simultaneously.

Account objects now contain a floating_ip_limit attribute which provides the maximum number of floating IPs that may be provisioned by the account. For more information, see the account documentation.

API v1 has reached end-of-life. All subsequent requests to API v1 will respond with HTTP 410 (Gone) and an error message:

# HTTP/1.1 410 (Gone)
{
  "status": "ERROR",
  "error_message": "API v1 has reached end-of-life. Please use API v2.",
  "message": "API v1 has reached end-of-life. Please use API v2."
}

Version 2 of our API provides a more RESTful interface, OAuth support, and allows access to new DigitalOcean features like Team Account Management and Floating IPs. To learn more, please visit the API documentation.

API V2 now supports enabling backups on a Droplet.

Account objects now contain status and status_message attributes, describing whether an account is locked, active or has a pending warning. For more information, see the account documentation.

We’ve deprecated final (temporary) snapshots and therefore temporary is no longer an acceptable value for type for a snapshot.

The access token response from the OAuth API now returns a canonical UUID for an account. This should be used to canonically identify a user.

Since releasing version 2 of our API nearly a year ago and officially bringing it out of beta last month, we’ve seen a tremendous uptake of usage by our community. As the ecosystem of tools and libraries continues to grow, we’ve decided that it is time to sunset version 1 of the API.

Don’t worry! We’re not going to pull the rug out from under you. In order to give everyone time to port their tools, version 1 will not be turned off until Monday, November 9, 2015.

With its (more) RESTful interface and features like OAuth support, v2 is both powerful and easy to use. Our developer documentation should give you all the information you need to begin the transition. If you have questions, you can always ask on our Community site or on Twitter.

We are very pleased to announce that API v2 is no longer in beta. Thank you to everyone who helped report bugs and suggest features during the beta period. Read more about this release on our blog.

The Image action endpoint now responds to a convert attribute, that allows backups and temporary snapshots to be saved permanently as snapshots. For more information, see the image actions documentation.

Images objects now return a type attribute, describing whether they are snapshots, backups or temporary images. For more information, see the images documentation.

Size objects now expose an available boolean attribute, which represents whether new Droplets can be created with the size.

All action objects, i.e. those returned by the /v2/actions, /v2/droplets/$ID/actions and /v2/images/$ID/actions endpoint now return a region_slug attribute, in addition to a region attribute. At 00:01 March 20, 2015 UTC, API v2 will start returning an embedded region object at the region attribute, not a slug.

For example, the API request:

curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/actions?page=1&per_page=1" 

would return:

{
  "actions": [
    {
      "id": 36804636,
      "status": "completed",
      "type": "create",
      "started_at": "2014-11-14T16:29:21Z",
      "completed_at": "2014-11-14T16:30:06Z",
      "resource_id": 3164444,
      "resource_type": "droplet",
      "region": {
        "name": "New York 3",
        "slug": "nyc3",
        "sizes": [
          "32gb",
          "16gb",
          "2gb",
          "1gb",
          "4gb",
          "8gb",
          "512mb",
          "64gb",
          "48gb"
        ],
        "features": [
          "virtio",
          "private_networking",
          "backups",
          "ipv6",
          "metadata"
        ],
        "available": true
      },
      "region_slug": "nyc3"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "pages": {
      "last": "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/actions?page=159&per_page=1",
      "next": "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/actions?page=2&per_page=1"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "total": 159
  }
}

Two new endpoints in API v2 report if droplets are running on the same physical hardware. They exist for an individual droplet or for an entire account.

The maximum allowed rate limit per O-Auth token has been increased to 5,000 requests/hour.

The images now supports a private filter which will allow you to retrieve all images that are specific to your account (IE: backups and snapshots).

For more information, you can view the documentation for this endpoint here.

API V2 now validates SSH key IDs and identifiers passed into the Droplet create call. In addition, API V2 now validates that requested features are available for a Droplet (backups, private networking, IPv6 and user data).

The API v2 now supports retrieving images by type, to retrieve an image by type, simply append:

GET /v2/images?type={distribution,application}

Change type to what you would like to retrieve and voilà!

DropletKit (The Ruby API Client) also supports this functionality as well in Version 1.1.0

You can view the documentation for this feature here.

The JSON object for a droplet no longer contains a nested Size object, but rather a slug called size_slug that references a Size object. Please see the droplet docs for the updated structure.

The Image JSON object now includes a min_disk_size attribute that contains the slug of the minimum size droplet required for that image. For example a snapshot of a 1 Gig droplet will have “1gb” as it’s min_disk_size.

Remove embedded action_ids from Droplet and Image.

Both price_monthly and price_hourly were previously strings. This made them harder to work with so we have gone ahead and turned them into floats.

We have tweaked the per_page limits to default to 20 and be a maximum of 200. We have found in our testing, so far, for this to be a good balance of requests versus results. Head on over and read up on pagination.

Want to know which regions support IPv6 or Private Networking? It is now possible to check which features are enabled in each region.

API V2 now supports disabling backups on a Droplet.

API V2 now supports expanding a droplet’s disk size, along with other resources.

It seems adding X- to custom HTTP headers is going out of style.

So we gone ahead and changed our RateLimit headers to no longer include the X.

They now look like this:

RateLimit-Limit:
RateLimit-Remaining:
RateLimit-Reset: