# 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/index.html.md), and a [container image registry](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/index.html.md).

In addition, you can take [snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/index.html.md) for on-demand disk images of Droplets and volumes, enable [backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/index.html.md) for automatic weekly or daily Droplet images, and upload [custom images](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/index.html.md) 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 **Backups & Snapshots** section of the control panel](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/images).

[Snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshots/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/index.html.md): Enable backups to automatically create system-level disk images weekly or daily with no configuration required.

[SnapShooter](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshooter/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/marketplace/index.html.md): Create new Droplets or Kubernetes clusters with 1-Click Apps preconfigured for WordPress, LAMP, Ghost, and hundreds more.

[Custom Images](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/index.html.md): Upload custom images to use guest operating systems and pre-packaged libraries on DigitalOcean Droplets.

[DigitalOcean Container Registry](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/index.html.md): Store Docker images in your own private registry.

## Latest Updates

### 5 December 2025

- [Remote MCP servers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/mcp/index.html.md) are now available, providing API-based access for AI tools to manage DigitalOcean resources.

### 26 November 2025

- [Usage-based backups plans](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/how-to/enable/index.html.md) are now in general availability.

### 17 November 2025

- Support for multiple registries when using the [Professional subscription plan](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/details/pricing/index.html.md) is now in [general availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md). You can create the registries using the [DigitalOcean Control Panel](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/how-to/create-registry/index.html.md#create-additional-container-registries-using-the-control-panel), [CLI](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/how-to/create-registry/index.html.md#create-a-container-registry-using-the-cli), or [API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry/how-to/create-registry/index.html.md#create-container-registry-using-the-api).

For more information, see [the full release notes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/).