Containers and Images

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.

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.

Backups

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

Marketplace

Create new Droplets or Kubernetes clusters with 1-Click images preconfigured for WordPress, LAMP, Ghost, and hundreds more.

Custom Images

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

Container Registry

Store Docker images in your own private registry.

Latest Updates

8 August 2022

• Rocky 8.6 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

7 July 2022

• Fedora 34 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 34 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 34 image from the platform on 7 August 2022.

1 July 2022

• The following pricing changes are now in effect:

  • A new $4 Droplet with 512MB of memory, 10GB of storage, 1 vCPU, and 500GB of outbound data transfer is now available in NYC1, FRA1, SFO3, SGP1, and AMS3. The slug is s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb.

  • We have simplified pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some Managed Databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • The prices of Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Reserved IPs, and Custom Images have increased.

  There is no change to pricing for Spaces, backups, volumes, DigitalOcean Container Registry, or App Platform. There are also no changes to inbound data transfer or bandwidth pricing.

  This is our first major price change in 10 years, and we believe the new model better fits our understanding of our customers and the expanded breadth of our offerings. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes, see our blog post on our new pricing.

For more information, see the full release notes.