Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean Images API

A DigitalOcean [image](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/) can be used to create a Droplet and may come in a number of flavors. Currently, there are five types of images: snapshots, backups, applications, distributions, and custom images. * [Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/) provide a full copy of an existing Droplet instance taken on demand. * [Backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/) are similar to snapshots but are created automatically at regular intervals when enabled for a Droplet. * [Custom images](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/) are Linux-based virtual machine images (raw, qcow2, vhdx, vdi, and vmdk formats are supported) that you may upload for use on DigitalOcean. * Distributions are the public Linux distributions that are available to be used as a base to create Droplets. * Applications, or [1-Click Apps](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/), are distributions pre-configured with additional software. To interact with images, you will generally send requests to the images endpoint at /v2/images.

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Business capability

IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 5

GET /v2/images List All Images #

POST /v2/images Create a Custom Image #

GET /v2/images/{image_id} Retrieve an Existing Image #

PUT /v2/images/{image_id} Update an Image #

DELETE /v2/images/{image_id} Delete an Image #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: DigitalOcean Images API
  version: '2.0'
  description: '# Introduction


    The DigitalOcean API allows you to manage Droplets and resources within the

    DigitalOcean cloud in a simple, programmatic way using conventional HTTP requests.'
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  contact:
    name: DigitalOcean API Team
    email: api-engineering@digitalocean.com
  termsOfService: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement/
servers:
- url: https://api.digitalocean.com
  description: production
security:
- bearer_auth: []
tags:


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