--- layout: "digitalocean" page_title: "DigitalOcean: digitalocean_floating_ip" sidebar_current: "docs-do-resource-floating-ip" description: |- Provides a DigitalOcean Floating IP resource. --- # digitalocean\_floating_ip Provides a DigitalOcean Floating IP to represent a publicly-accessible static IP addresses that can be mapped to one of your Droplets. ## Example Usage ``` resource "digitalocean_droplet" "foobar" { name = "baz" size = "1gb" image = "centos-5-8-x32" region = "sgp1" ipv6 = true private_networking = true } resource "digitalocean_floating_ip" "foobar" { droplet_id = "${digitalocean_droplet.foobar.id}" region = "${digitalocean_droplet.foobar.region}" } ``` ## Argument Reference The following arguments are supported: * `region` - (Required) The region that the Floating IP is reserved to. * `droplet_id` - (Optional) The ID of Droplet that the Floating IP will be assigned to. ~> **NOTE:** A Floating IP can be assigned to a region OR a droplet_id. If both region AND droplet_id are specified, then the Floating IP will be assigned to the droplet and use that region ## Attributes Reference The following attributes are exported: * `ip_address` - The IP Address of the resource ## Import Floating IPs can be imported using the `ip`, e.g. ``` terraform import digitalocean_floating_ip.myip 192.168.0.1 ```