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Learn how to build, deploy, and scale your applications with DigitalOcean. Explore our products with our documentation's technical walkthroughs, example code, reference information for our APIs, CLI, and client libraries, and more.

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DigitalOcean Platform Overview

Information about the DigitalOcean platform, like billing details, release notes, product availability by datacenter, support plans, account details, and SLAs.

Product Home

Information on DigitalOcean product features, pricing, availability, and limits; how to use products from the control panel; how to manage your account, teams, and billing; and platform details, release notes, and product policies.

Reference Home

Manage resources programmatically and integrate across the developer ecosystem with CLIs, APIs, and SDKs.

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Product Genre

Compute

Build your application the way you want with our suite of compute products including VMs, managed containers, PaaS, and serverless functions.

GPUs & AI/ML

Build, train, and deploy AI agents with GenAI Platform, or support your custom AI/ML use cases with GPU Droplets, Bare Metal GPUs, and more DigitalOcean GPU offerings.

Storage

Store and access any amount of data reliably in the cloud, either with S3-compatible Spaces Object Storage or with network-based block storage volumes.

Containers and Images

Create backups, upload custom images, use preconfigured images to create resources, and store Docker images in a private registry.

Managed Databases

Run fully managed database clusters running your choice of database engine and avoid manual setup and maintenance.

Networking

Secure and control the traffic to your applications with VPC networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.

Management

Track the health of your infrastructure, URLs, and more, set alerts to stay informed, and organize your resources with projects.

DigitalOcean Teams

Teams are how you manage your billing and infrastructure on DigitalOcean. You can work by yourself by remaining the only person on your team or collaborate by adding more people to teams you own.

Developer Tools

doctl Command Line Interface (CLI)

Manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line with doctl, our open-source command line interface (CLI).

API Overview

Programmatically manage your Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources using conventional HTTP requests. Use RESTful APIs to programmatically manage Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources.

Paperspace APIs, CLIs, and SDKs Overview

Interact with Paperspace resources programmatically using the Paperspace API or CLI, and find documentation for legacy tools.

Ansible

Automate DigitalOcean infrastrucuture and configuration management using the open source Ansible framework.

Terraform

Deploy and change many resources simultaneously using the open source Terraform tool.

PyDo

PyDo is DigitalOcean’s official Python client library based on DigitalOcean’s OpenAPIv3 specification.

DigitalOcean Libraries

This is a list of official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.

Open-Source Software

We use and contribute to open source software.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

In April 2025, we are implementing a breaking change to the DigitalOcean API that fixes an incomplete resource authorization issue. You may need to recreate API tokens with additional scopes to retain the same functionality, depending on your use cases.

Learn more on Breaking Change to Fix DigitalOcean API Incomplete Resource Authorization Issue.

13 May 2025

When you sign up for DigitalOcean, you no longer need to add a payment method to your default team before accessing the control panel. You do need to add a payment method to create resources, invite team members, and create additional teams.

12 May 2025

Now in public preview, if your app’s health check fails on App Platform, a liveness probe automatically restarts the app. Additionally, worker services now support health checks. To set up health checks for your app, see How to Set Up and Manage Health Checks.

7 May 2025

NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for GPU Droplets via the control panel and via the API using slugs gpu-4000adax1-20gb and gpu-6000adax1-48gb respectively. Learn more about GPU Droplet plans.
NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for DOKS clusters. You can choose these GPUs when creating new clusters or adding node pools to existing clusters using the control panel and the API with the gpu-4000adax1-20gb and gpu-6000adax1-48gb slug respectively.
You can now set three new, more granular predefined roles (Admin, Read/Write, and Read-Only) to Managed MongoDB users with the DigitalOcean API on create/delete endpoints. The previous user roles (DOAdmin and DOReadOnly) remain available for backwards compatibility. For more details on the MongoDB-specific permissions for each of the new roles, see our API reference.
You can now manually convert your Caching cluster to Valkey using our conversion guide.

For more, see our full release notes.