[SOLVED] Listing Digital ocean droplet snapshots along with date of creation

Listing Digital ocean droplet snapshots along with date of creation

I am in need of situation where i need to list out the available droplet snapshot of specific droplet. I am using doctl to list the snapshots. I need a way that the doctl command needs to list out the available snapshots along with date of creation. Alternate solutions is also appreciated. I am not sure is this possible. It would be great help if some one render their hands to make it clear.

Thanks, Muneesh

Solution

Your question is unclear.

Do you wish to filter the list of snapshots by a given Droplet (ID)?

If so, I suspect you'll want to consider using doctl --output=json to get the doctl command's output as JSON and then use a tool like jq to filter the result.

I created a Droplet and a snapshot and this works:

# jq filter
FILTER=".[]|select(.resource_id==\"${DROPLET}\")"

# For all my Droplets
DROPLETS=$(doctl compute droplet list --format=ID --no-header)

for DROPLET in ${DROPLETS}
do
  doctl compute snapshot list \
  --resource=droplet \
  --output=json \
  | jq "${FILTER}"
done

And, if you want to limit the output to just name and created_at:

FILTER=".[]|select(.resource_id==\"${DROPLET}\")|{\"name\":.name,\"created\":.created_at}"