Containers and Images

Validated on 1 March 2021 • Posted on 19 June 2018

DigitalOcean provides a variety of images that you can use to create Droplets and Kubernetes clusters, like Linux and FreeBSD distributions, container distributions, 1-Click Applications, and a container image registry.

In addition, you can take snapshots for on-demand disk images of Droplets and volumes, enable backups for automatic weekly Droplet images, and upload custom images to create Droplets with other operating systems or pre-packaged libraries. You can manage the images you create or upload to your account in the Images section of the control panel.

Marketplace

Create new Droplets or Kubernetes clusters with 1-Click images for WordPress, LAMP, Ghost, and hundreds more. Our 1-Click images have preconfigured environments with all the prerequisites installed.

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Snapshots

Create snapshots to save on-demand copies of DigitalOcean Droplets or volumes to your account. Use snapshots to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.

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Backups

Enable backups to automatically create system-level disk images of Droplets on a weekly schedule with no configuration required.

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Custom Images

Upload custom images to use guest operating systems and pre-packaged libraries on DigitalOcean Droplets.

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Container Registry

Store Docker images in your own private registry

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Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

FreeBSD 12.1 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the FreeBSD UFS and ZFS image via the API. We will remove the images from the platform on 11 March 2021.

27 April 2021

Fedora 34 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

26 April 2021

Ubuntu 21.04 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

7 December 2020

CentOS 6 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the CentOS 6 image via the API. We will remove CentOS 6 from the platform on 7 January 2021.

For more information, see the full release notes.