Digital Ocean CLI

I’m using DIgital Ocean for DNS records management. CLI tool can help us with that.

Install the CLI:

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# install
sudo GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go get -u github.com/digitalocean/doctl/cmd/doctl

# initialize with API token
doctl auth init

# implement completion
doctl completion bash | sudo tee /etc/bash_completion.d/doctl
# probably must relogin

Note: I was required to update to latest Golang version, due the some error “undefined: os.UserConfigDir” during CLI install

View account settings with: doctl account get

DNS updates via CLI

Using CLI, let’s try to create a new A record for an existing domain:

doctl compute domain list
doctl compute domain records create --record-type A --record-name www --record-data <ip-addr> <domain-name>