doctl/

DigitalOcean CLI

DigitalOcean

Command line interface for interacting with the DigitalOcean API and managing cloud resources.

Cloud ProvidersJSON

01Agent Notes

doctl follows `doctl <resource> <action>` pattern. Pass `-o json` for structured output. Resources include: compute, databases, kubernetes, apps, registry. Use `doctl compute droplet list -o json` for VM listing.

02Global Flags

Flag	Type	Description
`--context`	string	Named authentication context to use
`--output/-o`	enum [text, json]	Output format
`--access-token`	string	DigitalOcean API access token

03Authentication

Methods

access-tokenconfig-file

Env vars

DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN

Config files

~/.config/doctl/config.yaml

Setupdoctl auth init

Docsdocs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/how-to/install

04Install

brew install doctl

05Capabilities

Compute Management Storage Management Database Management Networking DNS Management Container Registry Container Orchestration

Reference

binarydoctl

checkdoctl version

authaccess-token, config-file

formatstext, json

json flag-o json

version1.151.0