Digital Ocean

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 sending requests to the `/v2/load_balancers` endpoint, you can list, create, or delete load balancers as well as add or remove Droplets, forwarding rules, and other configuration details.

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Business capability

IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 9

POST /v2/load_balancers Create a New Load Balancer #

GET /v2/load_balancers List All Load Balancers #

GET /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id} Retrieve an Existing Load Balancer #

PUT /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id} Update a Load Balancer #

DELETE /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id} Delete a Load Balancer #

POST /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/droplets Add Droplets to a Load Balancer #

DELETE /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/droplets Remove Droplets from a Load Balancer #

POST /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/forwarding_rules Add Forwarding Rules to a Load Balancer #

DELETE /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/forwarding_rules Remove Forwarding Rules from a Load Balancer #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: DigitalOcean Load Balancers 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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