Digital Ocean Databases API
DigitalOcean's [managed database service](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases)simplifies the creation and management of highly available database clusters. Currently, itoffers support for [PostgreSQL](http://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/),[Redis](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/redis/),[MySQL](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mysql/), [MongoDB](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/), and[OpenSearch](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/).By sending requests to the `/v2/databases` endpoint, you can list, create, or deletedatabase clusters as well as scale the size of a cluster, add or remove read-only replicas,and manage other configuration details.Database clusters may be deployed in a multi-node, high-availability configuration.If your machine type is above the basic nodes, your node plan is above the smallest option,or you are running MongoDB, you may additionally include up to two standby nodes in your cluster.The size of individual nodes in a database cluster is represented by a human-readable slug,which is used in some of the following requests. Each slug denotes the node's identifier,CPU count, and amount of RAM, in that order.For a list of currently available database slugs and options, use the `/v2/databases/options` endpoint or use the `doctl databases options` [command](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/databases/options).
Digital Ocean Databases 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 Databases. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 58 operations across 34 paths, and defines 61 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 Databases 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 58
Across 34 paths, the API surfaces 58 operations — 9 DELETE, 25 GET, 1 PATCH, 8 POST, 15 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
DigitalOcean's [managed database service](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases) simplifies the creation and management of highly available database clusters. Currently…
Schemas 61
The contract defines 61 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are postgres_advanced_config (54 properties), kafka_advanced_config (39 properties), opensearch_advanced_config (38 properties), mysql_advanced_config (34 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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