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Promote a Read-only Replica to become a Primary Cluster
An MCP tool from the DigitalOcean API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Promote a Read-only Replica to become a Primary Cluster To promote a specific read-only replica, send a PUT request to /v2/databases/$DATABASE_ID/replicas/$REPLICA_NAME/promote. **Note**: Read-only replicas are not supported for Caching or Valkey… [PUT /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/replicas/{replica_name}/promote]
Name on the gateway: digitalocean_api__databases_promote_replica · may change things.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
database_cluster_uuid required | string | A unique identifier for a database cluster. |
replica_name required | string | The name of the database replica. |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "digitalocean_api__databases_promote_replica",
"arguments": {
"database_cluster_uuid": "…",
"replica_name": "…"
}
}Or connect the DigitalOcean API server directly, which lists 874 tools including this one:
claude mcp add --transport http hj-digitalocean-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/digitalocean-api \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Try asking
Use the promote a read-only replica to become a primary cluster tool with database_cluster_uuid set to ….