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Add Droplets to a Load Balancer
An MCP tool from the DigitalOcean API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Add Droplets to a Load Balancer To assign a Droplet to a load balancer instance, send a POST request to /v2/load_balancers/$LOAD_BALANCER_ID/droplets. In the body of the request, there should be a droplet_ids attribute containing… [POST /v2/load_balancers/{lb_id}/droplets]
Name on the gateway: digitalocean_api__load_balancers_add_droplets · may change things.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
lb_id required | string | A unique identifier for a load balancer. |
droplet_ids required | array | An array containing the IDs of the Droplets assigned to the load balancer. |
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__load_balancers_add_droplets",
"arguments": {
"lb_id": "…",
"droplet_ids": []
}
}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 add droplets to a load balancer tool with lb_id set to ….