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.
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.
Released v1.53.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds support for container registry garbage collection of untagged manifests.
Fedora 31 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 31 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 31 image from the platform on 24 December 2020.
FreeBSD 12.2 UFS and ZFS base images are now available in the control panel and via the API. The image slug for the UFS FreeBSD image freebsd-12-x64 has been replaced with freebsd-12-x64-ufs. We will support 12.1 for three months after the release date of 12.2, which is currently scheduled for January 31, 2021.
For more information, see the full release notes.