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<p>The Droplet create page is where you choose your Droplet&rsquo;s configuration, like its operating system, how much memory it has, and which features (like backups or monitoring) to enable. The most popular defaults are pre-selected, so you can scroll to the bottom of the page and create a Droplet immediately, or you can customize any of the options in each section.</p>
<p>To access the DigitalOcean Control Panel and create a Droplet, you need a DigitalOcean account. You can create one from <a href="https://cloud.digitalocean.com/registrations/new">the DigitalOcean new account registration page</a> if you don&rsquo;t already have one.</p>
<p>After you <a href="https://cloud.digitalocean.com/login">log in to the Control Panel</a>, click the green <strong>Create</strong> button at the top to open the create menu. The menu lists many resource types, including <strong>Droplet</strong> and <strong>GPU Droplet</strong> under compute, plus Kubernetes, databases, storage, networking, AI products, and other options.</p>
<p>In the create menu, click <strong>Droplet</strong> to open the Droplet create page. If you don&rsquo;t have any Droplets, the <strong>Resources</strong> tab displays a large, blue <strong>Get Started with a Droplet</strong> button, which takes you to the same Droplet create page.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Choose Region</strong> section, select the region where you want to create your Droplet.</p>
<p>A good default is selected for you, but for the best performance and minimal latency, choose the datacenter nearest to you and your users. You can also make a decision based on <a href="/platform/regional-availability/">which products and features are available in which regions</a>.</p>
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<p>The region selector can hide or disable options that are incompatible with your selected configuration, often with a short explanation. For example, if you add a block storage volume to your configuration, you cannot create your Droplet in a datacenter that doesn&rsquo;t support volumes.</p>
<p>This section also lists the default <a href="/products/networking/vpc/">VPC network</a> for the Droplet. The VPC network enables an additional networking interface that can only be accessed by other Droplets within the same datacenter. This keeps traffic between Droplets and other applicable resources from being routed outside the datacenter over the public internet.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Choose an image</strong> section, you choose the image to use for your Droplet:</p>
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<p>Initially, you can choose from four categories of images:</p>
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<p><strong>OS</strong> includes basic Unix-like images with no additional software (like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian).</p>
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<p><strong>Solutions</strong> images are pre-configured <a href="/products/marketplace/">Marketplace</a> applications, like <a href="https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/docker">Docker</a>, <a href="https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wordpress">WordPress</a>, or <a href="https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/lamp">LAMP</a>, to help simplify getting started.</p>
<p>Some Marketplace images, like WordPress, let you add a <a href="/products/databases/">managed database cluster</a> during creation. Connection credentials for the database cluster are available <a href="/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/connect/#connection-details">in the Control Panel</a>, in a file on the Droplet (<code>/root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials</code>, and MongoDB certificates at <code>/root/dbaas_ca_cert.crt</code>), and are exported as environment variables on the Droplet from <code>/etc/environment</code>.</p>
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<p><strong>Agents</strong> images come with a pre-installed <a href="/products/marketplace/categories/ai-agents/">AI agent from the Marketplace</a> that can automate complete workflows. Each agent image lists a minimum disk size, which the Droplet plan you choose must meet.</p>
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<p><strong>Custom Images</strong> are Unix-like images that you <a href="/products/custom-images/">create and upload</a> to your DigitalOcean team.</p>
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<p>Once you start using Droplets, you can <a href="/products/backups/">make backups</a> and <a href="/products/snapshots/">take snapshots</a> of them. On the Droplet creation page, tabs for <strong>Backups</strong> and <strong>Snapshots</strong> list the backups and snapshots you&rsquo;ve taken, if any. You can choose those images as the foundation to create new Droplets.</p>
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<p><strong>Backups</strong> are <a href="/products/backups/">automatic system-level backups</a> taken weekly, daily, or multiple times a day. You can use backups to rebuild an existing Droplet. We retain weekly backups for four weeks, and daily backups for seven days. You can customize how long we retain usage-based backups for.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Choose a Droplet Plan</strong> section, you choose the amount of RAM, storage space, and CPU cores for your Droplet. Plans are grouped under <strong>SHARED CPU</strong> (including <strong>Basic</strong>) and <strong>DEDICATED CPU</strong> (General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, Memory-Optimized, and Storage-Optimized). For Basic plans you also pick <strong>Regular</strong>, <strong>Premium Intel</strong>, or <strong>Premium AMD</strong> disk and CPU options where available.</p>
<img class="content-image" src="https://docs.digitalocean.com/screenshots/droplets/create/choose-size.2bb1a24cfb9c6a0a0328335fc2a0edc57f870e55ea3e2d04aa2bb18b9e742dd9.png" alt="Choose a Droplet Plan section with shared and dedicated CPU groups and plan cards." />
<p>There are five types of plans:</p>
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<p><strong>Basic Droplets</strong>, a flexible option best for most use cases, like website hosting, staging environments and low intensity compute needs.</p>
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<p><strong>General Purpose Performance Droplets</strong>, a robust option suitable for a wide variety of mainstream, production applications that require a higher ratio of memory to CPU.</p>
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<p><strong>CPU-Optimized Performance Droplets</strong>, best for CPU intensive tasks and projects that require predictable performance or rely on CPU more than RAM or I/O, like batch processing large data sets, large builds, and video encoding. You can also choose between Regular and Premium Intel CPUs. Premium CPU plans come with some of our most modern Intel CPUs, NVMe SSDs, and higher network throughput speeds.</p>
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<p><strong>Memory-Optimized Performance Droplets</strong>, best for resource-intensive business applications, like high-performance SQL or NoSQL databases, large in-memory caches and indexes, real-time big data processing, and applications with large JVM requirements.</p>
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<p><strong>Storage-Optimized</strong>, best for large NoSQL databases (like MongoDB and Elasticsearch), time series databases, and other data warehouses.</p>
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<p>For each plan, you can choose Regular and Premium CPUs. Premium CPU plans come with some of our most modern Intel or AMD CPUs and NVMe SSDs, as well as higher bandwidth throughput.</p>
<p>See <a href="/products/droplets/concepts/choosing-a-plan/">How To Choose a Droplet Plan</a> for an in-depth guide to choosing a Droplet plan.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Additional Storage</strong> section, you can create and attach additional <a href="/products/volumes/">DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage</a> volumes to your Droplet. When you click <strong>Add Volume</strong>, you can specify the details of the volume you want to create:</p>
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<p>Volumes are independent resources that can be moved from one Droplet to another within the same datacenter. Attached volumes function like locally connected storage drives, meaning you can manage your storage with familiar tools and techniques.</p>
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<p>You can turn on automatic <a href="/products/backups/">backups</a> for the Droplet. This adds a cost to the Droplet&rsquo;s price depending on the frequency of the backups.</p>
<p>In the recommended options section, check <strong>Enable automated backups</strong>.</p>
<p>Here, you can select between basic plans (<strong>Plans</strong>) and usage-based plans (<strong>Usage-Based</strong>):</p>
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<p>Basic plans are divided into <strong>Weekly Backups</strong> and <strong>Daily Backups</strong>, and are billed as a percentage of the Droplet&rsquo;s monthly cost.</p>
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<p>Usage-based plans are customizable, and are billed at a flat rate per GiB of a backup&rsquo;s restorable file size. You can configure the <strong>Backup Frequency</strong>, which refers to how often backups happen (from weekly to every six hours), and <strong>Backup Retention</strong>, which refers to how long you retain them.</p>
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<p>The backup window is a 4-hour window of time during which the Droplet automatically initiates a new backup. In the <strong>Backup Window</strong> section, use the drop-down menus to customize your Droplet&rsquo;s backup window by choosing a time of day and, for weekly backups, a day of the week.</p>
<p>If you&rsquo;re <a href="/reference/api/reference/droplets/#droplets_create">using the API to create a Droplet</a>, you can enable backups by adding <code>&quot;backups&quot;: true</code> to the request body.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Choose Authentication Method</strong> section, you choose the method you want to use to log in to your Droplet.
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There are two options:</p>
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<p><strong>SSH key</strong>, which provides more security than a password.</p>
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<p><strong>Password</strong>, which allows you to create your own password for the new Droplet.</p>
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<p>If you choose <strong>SSH key</strong>, use <strong>Add SSH Key</strong> (or the team SSH key list when keys already exist) to attach at least one public key to the Droplet. You can add keys from this page or manage team SSH keys from <strong>Settings</strong> in the Control Panel.</p>
<p>Once you <a href="/products/droplets/how-to/add-ssh-keys/">create and upload an SSH key</a> to your DigitalOcean team, it remains available for you to add to any new Droplets you provision in the future.</p>
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<p>Above <strong>Finalize Details</strong>, the <strong>Create Droplet</strong> page groups <strong>Networking</strong>, <strong>Monitoring</strong>, and <strong>Additional Options</strong>. Expand <strong>Additional Options</strong> if it is collapsed.</p>
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<p><strong>Monitoring</strong> includes <strong>Improved Metrics and monitoring</strong> (free). When enabled, it installs the <a href="/products/monitoring/#what-is-the-digitalocean-agent">DigitalOcean metrics agent</a> for <a href="/products/monitoring/">DigitalOcean Monitoring</a>, expanded system metrics in the Control Panel, performance tracking, and <a href="/products/monitoring/how-to/manage-alerts/#create-control">alert policies</a>. An optional <strong>AI Droplet troubleshooting agent</strong> card may appear as a preview feature with its own terms.</p>
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<p><strong>Additional Options</strong> includes <strong>Startup scripts</strong> (free), where you supply <a href="/products/droplets/how-to/provide-user-data/">user data</a>: a <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-cloud-config-scripting">cloud-config file</a>, a Bash script, or other data for <code>cloud-init</code> on first boot. Other cards can include paid add-ons such as <strong>Managed Database</strong>. Enable only what you need. Pricing appears on each card when applicable.</p>
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<p>In the <strong>Finalize Details</strong> section, you specify the quantity, name, tags, and project for the Droplet you&rsquo;re creating.</p>
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<p>There are four subsections for these options:</p>
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<p><strong>Quantity</strong>, where you choose how many Droplets to create with this configuration. When the plan allows it, adjust the number with the plus (<strong>+</strong>) and minus (<strong>-</strong>) controls. Some configurations only allow creating one Droplet at a time; the Control Panel shows that limit in this section.</p>
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<p><strong>Hostname</strong>, where you give each Droplet a name which is used in the Control Panel and as the server&rsquo;s hostname. When quantity is greater than one, you get a field for each Droplet (for example <code>example</code>, <code>example-02</code>, <code>example-03</code>). Default names are provided based on the options you selected, but you can modify them to suit your needs.</p>
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<p><strong>Tags</strong>, where you can <a href="/products/droplets/how-to/tag/">add tags to organize and relate Droplets</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Project</strong>, where you can <a href="/products/projects/">assign the Droplet to a project</a>.</p>
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<p>Once you have selected your options, click <strong>Create Droplet</strong>. A progress bar displays how close your Droplet is to being ready.</p>
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<p>You can also click <strong>Create via command line</strong> to get a command that you can copy and paste onto the command line to create Droplets with the configuration you selected. You can choose from two libraries: <code>cURL</code> and <a href="/reference/doctl/"><code>doctl</code></a>, the official DigitalOcean command line utility.</p>
<p>Once the Droplet is fully set up, the Control Panel displays its IP address.</p>
<img class="content-image" src="https://docs.digitalocean.com/screenshots/droplets/creation-complete.5eb44d67135583a21f3b5c162e1edcf8f33a28f312127dbf4e9dd4cc7a71dfe2.png" alt="Droplets list row for a new Droplet with public IP address filled in and provisioning complete." />
<p>Once you see the IP address, you can <a href="/products/droplets/how-to/connect-with-ssh/">log in to your Droplet</a>.</p>
<p>To open a Droplet&rsquo;s detail page, click its name in the <strong>Droplets</strong> list.</p>
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<p>You can also create Droplets using the <a href="/reference/api/reference/">DigitalOcean API</a> or the <a href="/reference/doctl/">DigitalOcean&rsquo;s official CLI</a>, <code>doctl</code>.</p>
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<p>When creating a Droplet via CLI, you need to provide values for the <code>--region</code>, <code>--size</code>, and <code>--image</code> flags, which specify the desired datacenter, machine size, and operating system for your new Droplet. Use <a href="/reference/doctl/reference/compute/region/list/"><code>doctl compute region list</code></a>, <a href="/reference/doctl/reference/compute/size/list/"><code>doctl compute size list</code></a>, and <a href="/reference/doctl/reference/compute/image/list-distribution/"><code>doctl compute image list-distribution</code></a>, respectively, to get a list of available values.</p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/how-to/install/">Install <code>doctl</code></a>, the official DigitalOcean CLI.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">doctl compute droplet create &lt;droplet-name&gt;... <span class="o">[</span>flags<span class="o">]</span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>The following example creates a Droplet named <code>example-droplet</code> with a two vCPUs, two GiB of RAM, and 20 GBs of disk space. The Droplet is created in the <code>nyc1</code> region and is based on the <code>ubuntu-20-04-x64</code> image. Additionally, the command uses the <code>--user-data</code> flag to run a Bash script the first time the Droplet boots up:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">doctl compute droplet create example-droplet --size s-2vcpu-2gb --image ubuntu-20-04-x64 --region nyc1 --user-data <span class="s1">$&#39;#!/bin/bash\n touch /root/example.txt; sudo apt update;sudo snap install doctl&#39;</span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>Please note: In Windows Powershell, the example command would be the following instead:</p>
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<p>When creating a Droplet via API you need to provide values for <code>region</code>, <code>size</code>, and <code>image</code>, which specify the desired datacenter, machine size, and operating system for your new Droplet. Use <a href="/reference/api/reference/regions/#regions_list"><code>/v2/regions</code></a>, <a href="/reference/api/reference/sizes/#sizes_list"><code>/v2/sizes</code></a>, and <a href="/reference/api/reference/images/#images_list"><code>/v2/images</code></a>, respectively, to get a list of available values.</p>
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<p>Send a POST request to <a href="https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/droplets/#droplets_create"><code>https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets</code></a>.</p>
<p>Using cURL:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">curl -X POST <span class="se">\
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  -H <span class="s2">&#34;Content-Type: application/json&#34;</span> <span class="se">\
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  -H <span class="s2">&#34;Authorization: Bearer </span><span class="nv">$DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span> <span class="se">\
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  -d <span class="s1">&#39;{&#34;name&#34;:&#34;example.com&#34;,&#34;region&#34;:&#34;nyc3&#34;,&#34;size&#34;:&#34;s-1vcpu-1gb&#34;,&#34;image&#34;:&#34;ubuntu-20-04-x64&#34;,&#34;ssh_keys&#34;:[289794,&#34;3b:16:e4:bf:8b:00:8b:b8:59:8c:a9:d3:f0:19:fa:45&#34;],&#34;backups&#34;:true,&#34;ipv6&#34;:true,&#34;monitoring&#34;:true,&#34;tags&#34;:[&#34;env:prod&#34;,&#34;web&#34;],&#34;user_data&#34;:&#34;#cloud-config\nruncmd:\n  - touch /test.txt\n&#34;,&#34;vpc_uuid&#34;:&#34;760e09ef-dc84-11e8-981e-3cfdfeaae000&#34;}&#39;</span> <span class="se">\
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets&#34;</span></span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="create-a-new-droplet-go">Go
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<p>Using <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/godo">Godo</a>, the official DigitalOcean API client for Go:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-go" data-lang="go"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="s">&#34;context&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="s">&#34;os&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="s">&#34;github.com/digitalocean/godo&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">)</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="kd">func</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="nx">token</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">:=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">os</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">Getenv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#34;DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN&#34;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="nx">client</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">:=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">NewFromToken</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">token</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="nx">ctx</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">:=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">context</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">TODO</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="nx">createRequest</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">:=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">&amp;</span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DropletCreateRequest</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">   </span><span class="s">&#34;example.com&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Region</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#34;nyc3&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Size</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">   </span><span class="s">&#34;s-1vcpu-1gb&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Image</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DropletCreateImage</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nx">Slug</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#34;ubuntu-20-04-x64&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">SSHKeys</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[]</span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DropletCreateSSHKey</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DropletCreateSSHKey</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nx">ID</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">289794</span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nx">godo</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">DropletCreateSSHKey</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nx">Fingerprint</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#34;3b:16:e4:bf:8b:00:8b:b8:59:8c:a9:d3:f0:19:fa:45&#34;</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Backups</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">IPv6</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Monitoring</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">Tags</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[]</span><span class="kt">string</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="s">&#34;env:prod&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s">&#34;web&#34;</span><span class="p">},</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">UserData</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#34;#cloud-config\nruncmd:\n  - touch /test.txt\n&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nx">VPCUUID</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#34;760e09ef-dc84-11e8-981e-3cfdfeaae000&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span><span class="p">}</span></span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="create-a-new-droplet-ruby">Ruby
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<p>Using <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/droplet_kit">DropletKit</a>, the official DigitalOcean API client for Ruby:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-ruby" data-lang="ruby"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">require</span> <span class="s1">&#39;droplet_kit&#39;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">token</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">ENV</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN&#39;</span><span class="o">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">DropletKit</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="no">Client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">new</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ss">access_token</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">token</span><span class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">droplet</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">DropletKit</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="no">Droplet</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">new</span><span class="p">(</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="nb">name</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;example.com&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">region</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;nyc3&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">size</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;s-1vcpu-1gb&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">image</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s1">&#39;ubuntu-20-04-x64&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">ssh_keys</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="mi">289794</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&#34;3b:16:e4:bf:8b:00:8b:b8:59:8c:a9:d3:f0:19:fa:45&#34;</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">backups</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kp">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">ipv6</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kp">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">monitoring</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kp">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">tags</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="s2">&#34;env:prod&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&#34;web&#34;</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">user_data</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;#cloud-config</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">runcmd:</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">  - touch /test.txt</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="ss">vpc_uuid</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;760e09ef-dc84-11e8-981e-3cfdfeaae000&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">droplets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">droplet</span><span class="p">)</span></span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="create-a-new-droplet-python">Python
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<p>Using <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/pydo">PyDo</a>, the official DigitalOcean API client for Python:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pydo</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Client</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">client</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Client</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">token</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&#34;DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN&#34;</span><span class="p">))</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">req</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;name&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;example.com&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;region&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;nyc3&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;size&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;s-1vcpu-1gb&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;image&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;ubuntu-20-04-x64&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;ssh_keys&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="mi">289794</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="s2">&#34;3b:16:e4:bf:8b:00:8b:b8:59:8c:a9:d3:f0:19:fa:45&#34;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="p">],</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;backups&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;ipv6&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;monitoring&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;tags&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="s2">&#34;env:prod&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">    <span class="s2">&#34;web&#34;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="p">],</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;user_data&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;#cloud-config</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">runcmd:</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">  - touch /test.txt</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">  <span class="s2">&#34;vpc_uuid&#34;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&#34;760e09ef-dc84-11e8-981e-3cfdfeaae000&#34;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">resp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">client</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">droplets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">body</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">req</span><span class="p">)</span></span></span></code></pre></div></details>

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