Custom Images

Custom images are Linux and Unix-like images you import to DigitalOcean. You can create Droplets based custom images, which lets you migrate and scale your workloads without spending time recreating your environment from scratch.

Quickstart

Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Tutorials

Step-by-step instructions for common use cases and third-party software integration.

Reference

API and CLI reference documentation for managing custom images, including example requests and available parameters.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

• Starting 1 July 2022, some of our pricing is changing. These changes will go into effect for the July bill which customers wlil receive in the 1 August invoice.

  • We are introducing a new $4 Droplet with 512MB memory, 10GB SSD Disk, 1 vCPU and 500GB of outbound data transfer.

  • We are simplifying pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some Managed Databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Custom Images are increasing in price.

  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.

31 August 2021

• You can now assign floating IP addresses to Droplets that use custom images.

11 March 2020

• Users can now upload custom images using FTP URLs.

23 October 2018

• Droplets created from custom images now support snapshots and backups.

For more information, see all Custom Images release notes.