Digital Ocean Block Storage API
[DigitalOcean Block Storage Volumes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/volumes/)provide expanded storage capacity for your Droplets and can be movedbetween Droplets within a specific region.Volumes function as raw block devices, meaning they appear to theoperating system as locally attached storage which can be formatted usingany file system supported by the OS. They may be created in sizes from1GiB to 16TiB.By sending requests to the `/v2/volumes` endpoint, you can list, create, ordelete volumes as well as attach and detach them from Droplets
Digital Ocean Block Storage API is one of 37 APIs that Digital Ocean publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Block Storage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 9 operations across 4 paths, and defines 23 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.digitalocean.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Digital Ocean Block Storage API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer_auth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearer_auth— OAuth Authentication In order to interact with the DigitalOcean API, you or your application must authenticate. The DigitalOcean API handles this through OAuth…
Paths & Operations 9
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 3 DELETE, 4 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
[DigitalOcean Block Storage Volumes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/volumes/) provide expanded storage capacity for your Droplets and can be moved between Droplets within…
Schemas 23
The contract defines 23 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are volume_base (7 properties), region (5 properties), snapshots_base (5 properties), error (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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