Containers and Images

DigitalOcean provides a variety of images that you can use to create Droplets and Kubernetes clusters, like Linux 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.

SnapShooter

SnapShooter is a cloud backup and recovery solution. Use SnapShooter to back up servers, volumes, databases, and applications from DigitalOcean and other cloud providers.

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.

DigitalOcean Container Registry

Store Docker images in your own private registry.

Latest Updates

26 July 2023

• We have reenabled the creation of new resources in SFO2 for all customers.

20 July 2023

• The Ubuntu 22.10 distribution has reached end of life and is deprecated as of 20 July 2023:

  The image will be removed from the control panel starting on 20 July 2023 but will remain accessible for Droplet creation via the API for 30 days after the initial deprecation. If you need to use Ubuntu 22.10 after the image has been fully deprecated, you can create Droplets from a snapshot of a Droplet with that version or from a custom image.

17 July 2023

• Ubuntu 18.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 18.04 image from our platform in 30 days.

For more information, see the full release notes.