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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 or daily 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 on the Backups & Snapshots page 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 weekly or daily 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 Apps 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

10 August 2026

• DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) now provides mirror registries: DigitalOcean-curated regional mirrors of popular AI container images, available in 11 datacenter regions. You can pull nvidia/pytorch and rocm/pytorch images from a region-local mirror using standard Docker tooling, or use SOCI lazy loading to start containers in seconds while image layers stream on demand. DOCR also supports pushing your own SOCI-enabled images to your registry.

  For details, see How to Pull AI Images from DOCR Mirror Registries and How to Push SOCI-Enabled Images to Your Container Registry.

27 April 2026

• A remote MCP server is now available for DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR), providing API-based access for AI tools to manage your container registries, repositories, and garbage collection.

• DigitalOcean Container Registry now supports image layers up to 20 GB.

• DigitalOcean Container Registry now supports container images up to 100 GB.

13 April 2026

• You can now transfer Droplet snapshots between accounts using the DigitalOcean API. Read How to Transfer a Droplet Snapshot to learn how to transfer snapshots using the API or Control Panel.

For more information, see the full release notes.