Functions

Functions are blocks of code that run on demand without the need to manage any infrastructure. Develop on your local machine, test your code from the command line (using doctl), then deploy to App Platform — no servers required. Learn more about functions.

Quickstart

Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Tutorials

Step-by-step instructions for common use cases and third-party software integration.

Reference

CLI documentation for functions, including example requests and available parameters, and other reference information like project YAML configuration and activation records.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in DigitalOcean Functions.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Latest Updates

27 June 2022

• In order to improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

23 May 2022

• DigitalOcean Functions and functions components in App Platform are now in general availability.

  Functions are blocks of code that run on demand in response to requests. DigitalOcean Functions let developers execute their code on DigitalOcean without managing compute resources like Droplets or Kubernetes clusters.

For more information, see all Functions release notes.