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Digital Ocean Load Balancers API

[DigitalOcean Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/)provide a way to distribute traffic across multiple Droplets. By sendingrequests to the `/v2/load_balancers` endpoint, you can list, create, ordelete load balancers as well as add or remove Droplets, forwarding rules,and other configuration details.

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Digital Ocean Load Balancers 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 Load Balancer. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 9 operations across 4 paths, and defines 20 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.

9 operations 4 paths 20 schemas 3 DELETE2 GET3 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://api.digitalocean.com/v2
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
DigitalOcean API Team
License
Apache 2.0
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Digital Ocean Load Balancers 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, 2 GET, 3 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Load Balancers 9

[DigitalOcean Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/) provide a way to distribute traffic across multiple Droplets. By sending requests…

POST
/v2/load_balancers
Create a New Load Balancer
loadBalancers_create body → 202401429500default
GET
/v2/load_balancers
List All Load Balancers
loadBalancers_list 2 params → 200401429500default
GET
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}
Retrieve an Existing Load Balancer
loadBalancers_get 1 param → 200401404429500default
PUT
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}
Update a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_update 1 param body → 200401404429500default
DELETE
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}
Delete a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_delete 1 param → 204401404429500default
POST
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/droplets
Add Droplets to a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_add_droplets 1 param body → 204401404429500default
DELETE
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/droplets
Remove Droplets from a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_remove_droplets 1 param body → 204401404429500default
POST
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/forwarding_rules
Add Forwarding Rules to a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_add_forwardingRules 1 param body → 204401404429500default
DELETE
/v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/forwarding_rules
Remove Forwarding Rules from a Load Balancer
loadBalancers_remove_forwardingRules 1 param body → 204401404429500default

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are load_balancer_base (21 properties), health_check (7 properties), forwarding_rule (6 properties), region (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

health_check
object
An object specifying health check settings for the load balancer.
7 properties
forwarding_rule
object
An object specifying a forwarding rule for a load balancer.
6 properties 4 required
link_to_prev_page
object
1 property
link_to_last_page
object
1 property
page_links
object
1 property
load_balancer_create
region_slug
string
The slug identifier for the region where the resource will initially be available.
lb_firewall
object
An object specifying allow and deny rules to control traffic to the load balancer.
2 properties
load_balancer_base
object
21 properties 1 required
load_balancer
forward_links
region
object
5 properties 5 required
pagination
object
1 property
link_to_first_page
object
1 property
error
object
3 properties 2 required
backward_links
sticky_sessions
object
An object specifying sticky sessions settings for the load balancer.
3 properties
meta_properties
object
Information about the response itself.
1 property
meta
object
1 property 1 required
link_to_next_page
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

digital-ocean-load-balancers-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
digital-ocean:digital-ocean-load-balancers-api
Base URL
https://api.digitalocean.com/v2
Docs
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/
Provider
Digital Ocean
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