Networking

Validated on 25 February 2020 • Posted on 26 June 2018

Secure and control the traffic to your applications with private networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.

Domains and DNS

Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.

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Floating IPs

DigitalOcean Floating IPs are publicly-accessible static IP address that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter.

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Load Balancers

Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of Droplets for high availability setups.

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Cloud Firewalls

Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.

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IPv6

IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4 and provide a larger address space, increased security, and other benefits. DigitalOcean currently only supports IPv6 for Droplets. You can enable IPv6 on a Droplet to gain access to its 16 configurable IPv6 addresses.

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VPC

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network interface for collections of DigitalOcean resources. VPC networks provide a more secure connection between resources because the network is inaccessible from the public internet and other VPC networks. Traffic within a VPC network doesn’t count against bandwidth usage.

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Latest Updates

31 August 2021

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

5 May 2021

We have updated the Floating IP API responses to better align with our newer API models. The droplet and region fields now use the same response models used in the /v2/droplets and /v2/regions endpoints. Specifically:

The private_networking feature is now displayed under the features field under droplet instead of the features field under region.
The vpc_uuid field now populates with the correct values.
The Droplet’s type displays base when the Droplet uses a base image (i.e. Ubuntu, CentOS).
The Droplet’s networks field now includes private and floating IP addresses, if applicable.

Example Response:

{
  "floating_ips": [
    {
      "ip": "144.126.248.39",
      "droplet": {
        "id": 228430424,
        "name": "ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01",
        "memory": 1024,
        "vcpus": 1,
        "disk": 25,
        "locked": false,
        "status": "active",
        "kernel": null,
        "created_at": "2021-01-26T16:55:51Z",
        "features": [
          "private_networking"
        ],
        ...
        "networks": {
          "v4": [
            {
              "ip_address": "192.20.2.55",
              "netmask": "255.255.0.0",
              "gateway": "",
              "type": "private"
            },
            {
              "ip_address": "192.127.2.2",
              "netmask": "255.255.240.0",
              "gateway": "161.35.176.1",
              "type": "public"
            }
          ],
          "v6": []
        },
        "region": {
          "name": "New York 3",
          "slug": "nyc3",
          "features": [
            "backups",
            "ipv6",
            "metadata",
            "install_agent",
            "storage",
            "image_transfer",
            "server_id",
            "management_networking"
          ],
          "available": true,
          "sizes": [
          ...
          ]
        },
        "tags": [],
        "vpc_uuid": "21e31e10-24c5-47ec-8ae6-98da22"
      },
      ...
}

We have truncated the response for readability.

16 March 2021

You can now resize load balancers to better match their performance to their workload.

For more information, see the full release notes.