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What does the Digitalocean skill do?

DigitalOcean API Skill It is listed under Integrations & APIs on SkillMD.

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Is Digitalocean free to use?

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Who published Digitalocean?

ashish7802 (@ashish7802) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Digitalocean by ashish7802 — Agent Skill

Name: Digitalocean
Author: ashish7802

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DigitalOcean API Skill

Quick Start

DigitalOcean provides Droplets (VPS), Managed Databases, and App Platform. The official API allows full programmatic control over your cloud infrastructure.

npm install doctl

Common Workflows

Programmatic Backups and Snapshots

Automate Droplet snapshots before performing major system upgrades. Call the Actions API to trigger a snapshot, poll the Action ID for completion, and proceed with the upgrade.

Production Patterns

Floating IPs

For high availability, associate a Floating IP with your primary Droplet. If the primary goes down, use the API to immediately reassign the Floating IP to your standby Droplet without waiting for DNS propagation.

Error Recovery

Handle HTTP 404s when polling Action endpoints to ensure the Action hasn't been purged. For HTTP 429 (Rate Limit), inspect the RateLimit-Reset header to calculate the exact wait time before retrying.

Security Notes

Restrict API tokens by generating them with explicitly narrowed scopes (e.g., read-only). Use VPCs to isolate backend database Droplets from public internet exposure.

Performance Considerations

Creating Droplets takes ~60 seconds. Do not block web threads waiting for Droplet creation; handle infrastructure provisioning asynchronously via background workers (e.g., Redis queues).

Testing Guidance

Do not run E2E tests against live production Droplets. Use the API to spawn a temporary Droplet, run tests, and immediately destroy it to save costs.

Troubleshooting

If SSH fails after creating a Droplet via API, ensure you passed the correct ssh_keys array (using SSH Key IDs) in the creation payload.

References

DigitalOcean API

Related Skills

[AWS S3](/skills/aws s3)
Render

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with digitalocean — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
Inventing environment variable names
Omitting error handling and retry logic

Production checklist

Secrets in environment variables, not source code
Error handling and logging in place
Rate limits and timeouts configured

Related skills

[aws s3](../aws s3/SKILL.md) — related to
render — related to

Last Verified: 2026-07-02

---name: digitaloceandescription: DigitalOcean API Skill---# DigitalOcean API Skill## Quick StartDigitalOcean provides Droplets (VPS), Managed Databases, and App Platform. The official API allows full programmatic control over your cloud infrastructure.```bashnpm install doctl```## Common Workflows### Programmatic Backups and SnapshotsAutomate Droplet snapshots before performing major system upgrades. Call the Actions API to trigger a snapshot, poll the Action ID for completion, and proceed with the upgrade.## Production Patterns### Floating IPsFor high availability, associate a Floating IP with your primary Droplet. If the primary goes down, use the API to immediately reassign the Floating IP to your standby Droplet without waiting for DNS propagation.## Error RecoveryHandle HTTP 404s when polling Action endpoints to ensure the Action hasn't been purged. For HTTP 429 (Rate Limit), inspect the `RateLimit-Reset` header to calculate the exact wait time before retrying.## Security NotesRestrict API tokens by generating them with explicitly narrowed scopes (e.g., read-only). Use VPCs to isolate backend database Droplets from public internet exposure.## Performance ConsiderationsCreating Droplets takes ~60 seconds. Do not block web threads waiting for Droplet creation; handle infrastructure provisioning asynchronously via background workers (e.g., Redis queues).## Testing GuidanceDo not run E2E tests against live production Droplets. Use the API to spawn a temporary Droplet, run tests, and immediately destroy it to save costs.## TroubleshootingIf SSH fails after creating a Droplet via API, ensure you passed the correct `ssh_keys` array (using SSH Key IDs) in the creation payload.## References- [DigitalOcean API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/)## Related Skills- [AWS S3](/skills/aws s3)- [Render](/skills/render)## Why use this skillUse this when your agent works with **digitalocean** — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.## AI pitfalls- Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data- Inventing environment variable names- Omitting error handling and retry logic## Production checklist- [ ] Secrets in environment variables, not source code- [ ] Error handling and logging in place- [ ] Rate limits and timeouts configured## Related skills- [`aws s3`](../aws s3/SKILL.md) — related to- [`render`](../render/SKILL.md) — related to---> **Last Verified:** 2026-07-02

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