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December 2024:
7 posts
DigitalOcean had a transformative year in 2024, with significant product development and community efforts. The company introduced several features to improve scalability, including Role Based Access Control, enhanced backup offerings, and updates to log management. A Global Load Balancer was also launched, allowing customers to scale their HTTP traffic globally. Additionally, the App Platform was reimagined with autoscaling, Dedicated IPs, and a simplified pricing model. DigitalOcean also made AI more approachable for all businesses by launching GPU Droplets, virtualized GPUs that enable access to powerful GPU computing power. The company plans to further simplify workflows through partnerships and new features in 2025.
Dec 31, 2024
695 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has introduced a new feature called Droplet Autoscale Pools, which automates the scaling of Droplets based on resource utilization. This feature helps businesses pay only for the compute resources they need, reducing costs and optimizing performance. With Droplet Autoscaling, users can set minimum and maximum numbers of Droplets, and the system will dynamically add or remove them to meet performance requirements. The new feature is designed to ensure high availability and reliability for applications, while also providing cost efficiency and seamless integration with DigitalOcean's load balancers. Users can create an Autoscale Pool through the DigitalOcean dashboard or API, define scaling parameters, and let Autoscaling take over, dynamically adjusting infrastructure as needed.
Dec 19, 2024
387 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced that it now accepts Alipay as a payment method, making its cloud infrastructure services more accessible to developers in Asia-Pacific regions. This addition allows users to conveniently pay for services using their stored debit and credit card details through the Alipay app. With Alipay available, users can simplify their billing process, increase security, and eliminate barriers to international transactions. The partnership with Alipay aims to enable developers worldwide to focus on building and scaling their applications, making DigitalOcean's cloud services more inclusive and user-friendly.
Dec 18, 2024
474 words in the original blog post.
Deploy: Scaling With Simplicity is a developer conference by DigitalOcean, offering in-person and virtual options. The event focuses on simplifying development workflows, enhancing application performance, and unlocking AI's potential using DigitalOcean's scalable solutions. Attendees will learn from expert-led sessions featuring real-world examples, live demos, and interactive workshops. Key topics include agentic AI, cloud strategies, and scaling applications. The conference aims to provide actionable strategies, tools, and connections for developers and entrepreneurs looking to take their applications to the next level.
Dec 18, 2024
348 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has made its Internal Load Balancer (ILB) a generally available feature for all customers, allowing them to distribute traffic across private workloads in a secure and efficient manner. The ILB operates within a private network using private IP addresses, shielding internal workloads from the public internet. This feature simplifies management, provides private load balancing, secured global scaling, VPC peering support, and improves application reliability, reducing latency and enhancing security for small to medium businesses and developers.
Dec 17, 2024
329 words in the original blog post.
The general availability of VPC-native DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters has been announced, bringing seamless integration between DOKS clusters and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources, enhancing networking flexibility and scalability for workloads. This feature enables native routing between Kubernetes clusters and VPC resources, allowing for streamlined connectivity and improved performance. With VPC-native networking, users can achieve improved integration, enhanced flexibility, simplified operations, and customization options to meet specific application requirements or infrastructure policies. Existing clusters will continue to operate using traditional networking models, while new clusters created are by default VPC-native DOKS clusters. Additional networking features such as VPC Peering, Global Load Balancer, and Internal Load Balancer have also been introduced to improve Kubernetes networking. Early adopters have found the feature to be popular and easy to use, with positive feedback highlighting the ease of connecting workloads to critical resources within their VPCs.
Dec 17, 2024
578 words in the original blog post.
VPC Peering is now generally available for all DigitalOcean customers, offering enhanced features such as the ability to create VPC-native DOKS clusters via the UI and add Pod and service networks as trusted sources for databases. This update streamlines the process of connecting DOKS workloads with Managed Databases, while also providing secure, private connectivity, seamless multi-region scaling, simplified network management, and safeguards for regulated industries. The feature integrates seamlessly with other DigitalOcean products, including Droplets, Kubernetes (DOKS), and Databases, and is ultra simple to set up, requiring just a few clicks to establish bi-directional peering between VPCs. However, some limitations apply, such as not supporting Inter-Team VPC Peering or inter-DC VPC Peering in the BLR1 data center, and requiring manual updates for older managed databases.
Dec 12, 2024
671 words in the original blog post.
November 2024:
9 posts
DigitalOcean has announced significant enhancements to its Hatch program, specifically designed for AI and machine learning startups. The program offers exclusive benefits such as up to $100,000 in compute credits, three months of free GPU usage, and complimentary premium support. Additionally, DigitalOcean's GPU Droplets are now available at an industry-leading price of just $1.90 per hour, providing affordable access to powerful computing resources for startups. With Hatch, AI/ML startups can focus on innovation while scaling with confidence, leveraging a startup-friendly approach that includes predictable pricing, flexible resource allocation, and expert technical support. The program is designed to help founders get their companies off the ground and provide the necessary resources and community to succeed in the competitive AI/ML landscape.
Nov 26, 2024
600 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean offers a range of GPU computing solutions to help developers and teams power their AI/ML workloads. The company's Bare Metal GPUs provide direct access to powerful hardware for high-performance AI/ML workloads, while its GPU Droplets offer scalable, on-demand deployment with virtualized instances. For those looking for an easy entry point into GPU computing, DigitalOcean's 1-Click Models powered by Hugging Face are a low-barrier solution. The company also offers fully managed Kubernetes clusters with GPU support through its GPUs for DOKS service, which is ideal for teams already using Kubernetes. Additionally, the GenAI Platform provides a quick way to get started with third-party generative AI models and agent customization, making it suitable for developers building generative AI applications like chatbots or search tools. By selecting the right option for their needs, users can leverage DigitalOcean's strengths in scalability, simplicity, and approachability to power their AI/ML workloads from development to production.
Nov 25, 2024
1,140 words in the original blog post.
The DigitalOcean team has been using an open-source project called Cluster API to provide a managed Kubernetes service since 2019. The team's infrastructure underwent significant changes, particularly with the introduction of a new Containerized Control Plane (CCP) architecture in 2021. This change was made possible by combining Cluster API with "DigitalOcean's scrappy magic" to create a scalable and fault-tolerant managed Kubernetes service. By using Cluster API, DigitalOcean simplified the complexities of provisioning new Kubernetes clusters and providing structure for ongoing maintenance and upgrades. The team also leveraged Kubernetes in Kubernetes, which allowed them to take care of scalability and fault tolerance without additional logic or human intervention. This approach enabled flexibility for customers, making it possible to offer high availability and horizontal scaling with minimal effort. However, the team also faced challenges, such as networking complexities and the need to enforce a positive security model for multi-tenanted clusters. Ultimately, the change was successful, and DigitalOcean is excited to continue delivering more features in future, having taken a step back to develop a bold new approach.
Nov 25, 2024
1,689 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs with NVIDIA accelerated computing offer a solution for serious AI builders who need control, power and less noise in their cloud infrastructure. These servers are purpose-built to tackle demanding AI/ML workloads, model training and custom infrastructure setups, featuring 8 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and powerful hardware. They provide dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure with no neighbors, allowing full access to all GPUs, ideal for projects requiring direct control over hardware for optimal performance and privacy. This setup is well-suited for use cases like large-scale model training, real-time inference, and complex orchestration. With the quotes from Jacob Jackson, CEO and Founder of Supermaven, highlighting the importance of heavy-duty GPU computing power in delivering exceptional user experiences. The Bare Metal GPUs come with different configurations such as GPU Droplets which provide easy scalability and quick provisioning, but are limited by their lack of customization options compared to the Bare Metal servers.
Nov 21, 2024
443 words in the original blog post.
Maintenance Mode and Restart Apps are two new features in DigitalOcean's App Platform, allowing for greater flexibility and control over applications. Maintenance Mode temporarily takes an app offline while ensuring users see a maintenance page on the home screen, ideal for tasks such as database migrations or troubleshooting. The Restart Apps feature enables developers to reboot their applications directly from the dashboard in seconds, simplifying app management and reducing unnecessary workarounds.
Nov 20, 2024
285 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private networking solution that provides isolation for resources running on the DigitalOcean public cloud on isolated private networks. It offers simplicity and ease of use, allowing users to create custom VPCs with their own address ranges without requiring prior networking knowledge. The VPC solution features a multi-tenanted fleet of bare metal hypervisors, where each production hypervisor hosts Droplets belonging to several different VPCs across many tenants. Isolation is achieved through VXLAN tunnels, which are encapsulated and forwarded using L2 constructs. The VPC control plane relies on MAC addresses for unique identification and uses OpenFlow specifications to program the OvS datapath. The system has a convergence framework that handles high throughput updates and is resilient to failures, with versioning used to track updates and ensure consistency across all targets.
Nov 19, 2024
3,220 words in the original blog post.
At DigitalOcean, we embrace the ever-changing nature of the tech landscape and our data centers are no exception. We're thrilled to announce that NYC2, one of our first data centers launched in 2013, is once again open to new customers after temporarily closing due to capacity constraints. With expanded capacity and the launch of NVIDIA H100 GPUs at NYC2, we've ensured that our facility can support more customers, applications, and workloads than ever before. The reopening coincides with the introduction of GPU Droplets powered by these high-performance computing options, facilitating high-speed data processing for developers, startups, and innovators. Our 16 data centers are designed to be adaptable to businesses of all sizes, providing flexibility and fluidity in our infrastructure. We welcome new customers back to NYC2 and invite them to sign up or contact our sales team to learn more about how this location can support their business.
Nov 13, 2024
364 words in the original blog post.
In a significant update to its cloud-native application platform, DigitalOcean has introduced foundational additions to its Kubernetes (DOKS) networking capabilities, enabling users to build and scale their applications globally. The new features aim to provide a more flexible, scalable, and secure networking foundation for cloud-native applications, addressing challenges faced by customers trying to scale beyond single regions. With the introduction of VPC-native clusters, peering, global load balancers, and internal load balancers, DigitalOcean is reimagining its DOKS networking paradigm to empower developers to build robust, resilient applications that can run globally with seamless application scalability and security.
Nov 12, 2024
396 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced the release of scalable storage for its Managed MongoDB service, allowing developers to add additional storage to their MongoDB clusters at cost-effective prices with minimal friction. This feature enables developers to minimize downtime, grow their applications as data needs change, and make their applications more flexible. Scalable storage provides independent scaling, cost efficiency, ease of use, granular billing, automatic provisioning, and expanded storage capacity for data-intensive applications built on MongoDB. The new feature is available with pricing starting at $0.20 per GiB per month, up to a maximum of 16 TiB of storage per database instance, with security features such as data encryption at rest and in transit.
Nov 12, 2024
933 words in the original blog post.
October 2024:
18 posts
DigitalOcean App Platform now supports HTTP/2, enabling faster and more efficient cloud-native apps. This technology introduces multiplexing, allowing multiple requests to be sent over a single connection, significantly improving performance and reducing latency. gRPC (gRPC Remote Procedure Call) is an open-source framework that works over HTTP/2, providing high-performance RPC for distributed systems and microservices. It offers features such as high performance, efficiency, streaming capabilities, cross-language support, and the ability to handle large-scale distributed services. To use gRPC on DigitalOcean App Platform, developers need to configure their application to use HTTP/2 transport, setting the protocol field in the respective service to HTTP2. This enables faster deployment of modern, cloud-native systems.
Oct 29, 2024
607 words in the original blog post.
Log forwarding, a powerful functionality already available for Managed Databases and App Platform in DigitalOcean, is now available for DigitalOcean Kubernetes. This feature allows customers to transmit log data from various databases and applications to the log management provider of their choice, including OpenSearch. With log forwarding, customers can experience centralized log management, improved monitoring and simplified troubleshooting, improved alerting, and optimized resource usage. By forwarding logs to a log management provider, customers can proactively respond to potential problems or threats before they impact production environments, helping to ensure better reliability. Log forwarding offers valuable benefits to improve development and operational productivity, regardless of the type of application built with DOKS, from small-scale microservices to AI-powered applications.
Oct 29, 2024
504 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has partnered with Hugging Face to offer 1-click Model deployment, a solution that simplifies the process of deploying popular generative AI models on DigitalOcean GPU Droplets. This new feature provides users with a user-friendly way to launch AI applications faster and more efficiently, combining the simplicity of DigitalOcean with the widely used platform of Hugging Face. With this partnership, developers can now deploy 1-Click Models directly from the DigitalOcean cloud console or select them on Hugging Face and deploy on DigitalOcean with just one click. The solution is designed to simplify the developer experience and provide a dedicated inference endpoint for users, allowing them to focus on building innovative applications quickly and efficiently.
Oct 23, 2024
328 words in the original blog post.
You've come across containers, Dockerfiles, and registries. Containers have become ubiquitous today, and understanding how images are pushed or pulled from a registry is essential. An image consists of an index, manifest, config, and layers. The index outlines the platform-specific manifests, while the manifest contains the layer digests and config. Layers are compressed filesystems containing binaries and dependencies. To pull an image, clients fetch the tag index digest, index itself, platform manifest, config, and layers in this order. For private registries, clients obtain authorization information from a token server endpoint. The authentication mechanism is repeated for each component of the image. Pushing an image involves uploading components in reverse order, using either monolithic or chunked upload approaches.
Oct 21, 2024
1,626 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced Early Access to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering for all customers, enhancing private cloud networking with auto-route injection and VPC-native Kubernetes (DOKS). This feature provides secure, private connectivity between VPCs in different regions, allowing for quick and easy setup of isolated cloud environments. With DigitalOcean's VPC Peering, resources like Droplets, DBaaS, and DOKS clusters can communicate privately, as though they are on the same network. The key benefits include seamless multi-region scaling, simplified network management, and safeguards for regulated industries. The feature is designed to fit various budgets and offers a simple, cost-effective solution that streamlines connectivity with just a few clicks.
Oct 18, 2024
761 words in the original blog post.
The DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) is a private Docker image registry that allows users to store and manage private container images. To clean up unused data, DOCR provides on-demand garbage collection, which puts the user's registry in read-only mode while allowing them to pull images during the process. The garbage collection works in two phases: scanning the registry for entities and updating metadata, followed by actual deletion of garbage. This process helps reclaim storage space, simplify developer workflows, and promote better resource management, ultimately maintaining cost-effective and efficient containerized infrastructure.
Oct 17, 2024
632 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced Early Access to its Internal Load Balancer (ILB), a regional load balancer designed for cloud-native applications, enabling better resource utilization, data privacy, and application performance. ILB simplifies internal traffic routing while maintaining security and performance, allowing developers to scale private workloads without exposing them to the public internet. With ILB, users can distribute incoming traffic across Droplets and Kubernetes clusters using private IP addresses, reducing complexity and overhead compared to previous manual management methods. The service offers features such as simplified management, private load balancing, secured global scaling, VPC peering support, DOKS service connectivity, and is priced the same as DigitalOcean's external facing HTTP load balancer at $12 per month per node.
Oct 17, 2024
507 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced that its object storage service, DigitalOcean Spaces, is now available in Toronto (TOR1), bringing object storage closer to customers in Canada and the northeastern U.S. with lower latency and support for local data residency requirements. This expansion brings Spaces to all 9 DigitalOcean regions, including London, Sydney, and Bangalore, making it easier for businesses to store and deliver content close to their users. With the new Toronto datacenter, existing customers can easily set up off-site backups to Toronto for added resilience and business continuity. Spaces is designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, and web assets, while also being suitable for AI/ML workloads and providing a built-in CDN to minimize page load times. The service offers highly scalable and affordable object storage starting at $5 per month for 250 GiB of storage with 1 TiB of outbound transfer.
Oct 15, 2024
502 words in the original blog post.
Hacktoberfest is a celebration of all things open source, bringing together participants from around the world with diverse skill sets to contribute to various projects. To participate, register before October 31, and make four high-quality pull/merge requests between October 1 and 31 in participating GitHub or GitLab projects. Coding tasks are the main way people participate, but other ways to support open-source include non-code contributions such as technical documentation, user experience testing, and writing. Maintaining one's own project can also be a great way to contribute, especially for those with more experience. By preparing their projects for contributions, maintainers can encourage new contributors by adding labels, creating contribution guidelines, and adopting a code of conduct. The event aims to encourage participation in open source, not just coding skills, and offers various resources and support for participants.
Oct 11, 2024
855 words in the original blog post.
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We're excited to announce the launch of new DigitalOcean Droplet sizes, including Premium Optimized Droplets designed for high-performance computing tasks, and General Purpose and CPU Optimized Droplets ideal for various cloud-native applications. These new Droplet sizes offer improved scalability, memory, and storage options, making them suitable for demanding workloads such as streaming, gaming, machine learning, data analytics, and more. The 48vCPU Memory and Storage Optimized Premium Droplets are optimized for memory-intensive and data-heavy applications, while the 60vCPU General Purpose and CPU Optimized Premium Droplets provide high throughput and consistent performance for various cloud-native workloads.
Oct 11, 2024
372 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has sponsored ProxySQL LLC, the company behind ProxySQL, to add support for the PROXY Protocol in its latest release, v2.7.0, which brings significant improvements to managing database connections behind a load balancer by preserving client IPs and connection details. This update simplifies complexities of managing connections behind load balancers, offering enhanced visibility, control, and security, making it easier to track traffic sources accurately. The PROXY Protocol adds a human-readable header to requests passing through a load balancer, which includes the original client’s IP address and connection details, allowing ProxySQL to extract these details when a connection reaches it. Enabling the PROXY Protocol in ProxySQL is simple and flexible, with various configuration options available, including default settings and support for specified IP ranges or subnets. This update provides valuable benefits for database administrators, such as query rules, processlist display, auditing & logging, access control, and more, making modernizing database operations a more reliable way to manage connections behind load balancers.
Oct 10, 2024
524 words in the original blog post.
The article reviews security best practices for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters, focusing on preventative measures to secure services and data. It highlights three fundamental security concepts: Zero Trust, Least Privilege, and Encryption at Rest/Encrypted in Transit. The article emphasizes the importance of network policies, service meshes like Istio or Linkerd, and secret management solutions using tools like HashiCorp Vault. Additionally, it discusses how to secure containers by limiting elevated permissions and using seccomp profiles. The article concludes that while these practices are essential, automating security measures with guardrails (like Open Policy Agent) is crucial for ensuring consistent security across the cluster.
Oct 08, 2024
2,730 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced the general availability of its new GPU offering for Kubernetes, providing flexible and affordable access to high-performance GPU resources. This move aims to lower the barrier to entry for AI innovation by empowering businesses of all sizes to harness AI and machine learning within Kubernetes environments. The new offering is designed to simplify and accelerate innovation, removing technical barriers associated with AI/ML development in containerized environments. It's particularly well-suited for use cases like AI/ML model training and inference, video processing and rendering workloads, big data analytics, genomic sequencing, and scientific simulations. With the integration of NVIDIA's H100 GPUs, businesses can now fully unlock the potential of AI/ML development and deployment within a simplified and cost-effective infrastructure.
Oct 08, 2024
632 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean uses Semgrep, an open-source static analysis tool, to help provide code safety and quality. The company's Product Security team integrates security by default through automation and guardrails in their engineering processes. This allows them to detect vulnerabilities across entire codebases using complex matching patterns and integrate seamlessly into their CI pipeline. By leveraging Semgrep, DigitalOcean was able to identify and address a number of security issues, including those related to legacy account users and function-level authorization, resulting in a more robust security framework on every pull request. The tool's ability to enhance developer workflows by providing enriched metadata also helps the company maintain a secure environment.
Oct 07, 2024
427 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean’s partnership program offers tailored solutions and expert support to businesses at every growth stage, providing access to industry-leading tools and a supportive community. Flexible partnership models, predictable pricing, and dedicated support enable businesses to focus on innovation and scaling with the partner program. As an Independent Software Vendor or Managed Service Provider, potential discounts of up to 25% are available, while startups may be eligible for the Hatch program offering resources and 12 months of DigitalOcean credits. Additionally, developers can expand their reach by listing on the DigitalOcean Marketplace, making it easy to market and sell software globally.
Oct 04, 2024
204 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has partnered with Netlify to provide developers with a seamless web deployment experience. This collaboration combines DigitalOcean's scalable cloud infrastructure with Netlify's web deployment capabilities, making it easier for developers to build, deploy, and scale their web projects. With the addition of MongoDB, developers can now manage dynamic data while maintaining the speed and performance of their static site. The partnership includes features such as free daily backups, automatic updates, high availability, end-to-end security, and access to additional database engines and object storage in the future.
Oct 03, 2024
311 words in the original blog post.
This month marks the 11th year of Hacktoberfest, a virtual event that encourages developers to contribute to open source projects. The event started as a small hackathon in 2014 and has since grown into a global celebration of open source, with tens of thousands of developers participating each year. It's an opportunity for developers to learn new skills, teach others, and connect with the wider community while making tangible improvements to tools millions of people use daily. The event is significant to DigitalOcean as it marks its CEO's first year leading the company, and the company has been a strong supporter of Hacktoberfest since its inception. Over the years, Hacktoberfest has expanded to support projects on multiple platforms, including GitLab and GitHub, and has seen over 2.4 million accepted pull/merge requests for open source projects. The event is a testament to the power of community-driven open source development and showcases the impact that individual contributions can have on software development.
Oct 02, 2024
828 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has introduced GPU Droplets, which are digital machines that come with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, allowing developers to efficiently experiment, train AI models, and scale projects. These droplets offer on-demand access to high-speed data processing and flexible configurations ranging from single-GPU setups to 8-GPU instances, making it easy for users to scale computing power without large upfront investments. Each GPU Droplet includes two local disks, simplifying the process by integrating networking and storage resources, allowing developers to focus on training models efficiently. With transparent pricing and pre-installed software packages like Torch and CUDA, DigitalOcean's GPU Droplets make cutting-edge AI capabilities accessible to everyone, reducing costs and complexity associated with larger cloud providers.
Oct 01, 2024
616 words in the original blog post.
September 2024:
6 posts
The new GitHub Actions for App Platform introduces improved pluggability, a completely overhauled deploy action, and support for GitOps-style deployment. The deploy action allows updating an existing app via GitHub Actions, committing an AppSpec to the repository, and handling the entire deployment process without interacting with DigitalOcean directly. Environment variable placeholders can be used to update image references or manage secrets. The action outputs resulting app metadata and build/deployment logs, which can be used for rich integrations. Deploying an app purely from GitHub is simplified by committing the App Spec to the repository and setting up an action like the example provided. The new deploy action also enables pull request previews, allowing deployment of a new app for every pull request and surfacing live URL, build, and deployment logs. Additionally, a delete action has been introduced to allow deleting apps when pull requests are closed or merged.
Sep 26, 2024
1,025 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean's Global HTTP Load Balancer (GLB) is now generally available to all customers, offering a streamlined solution for improving application availability, enhancing resiliency, and reducing latency. This service bridges the gap between traditional global load balancing solutions by providing a simple, cost-effective solution designed to meet the needs of growing businesses while maintaining ease of use. GLB optimizes traffic distribution for faster response times, supports Kubernetes clusters (beta), includes built-in multi-region failover, autoscaling for demand spikes, edge caching for enhanced performance, advanced traffic control, and enhanced security features, all at a predictable pricing model starting at $15 per month with affordable overage options.
Sep 18, 2024
525 words in the original blog post.
Daily backups have moved from early availability to general availability on DigitalOcean, making them accessible to all customers and data centers. This feature is crucial for businesses with high data volume generation, enabling daily backup creation to ensure data protection. Customers can enable daily backups during Droplet creation or by updating existing settings through the Cloud Console, CLI, or API. Backups are listed under "Backups & Snapshots," allowing users to manage and monitor them. The feature is designed to be flexible and adaptable, with options for automated backup management and integration with other DigitalOcean features. With this milestone, DigitalOcean aims to further secure and protect user data, inviting feedback to improve the feature and welcome continued support from customers.
Sep 17, 2024
402 words in the original blog post.
At DigitalOcean, they're actively shaping the AI revolution and making advanced AI tools accessible to businesses of all sizes. They've unveiled new AI offerings, including GPU Droplets and their GenAI platform, which aim to democratize AI application development and provide pre-built components for creating AI-powered applications. The company's primary focus is on making AI accessible to a broad range of users, starting with infrastructure, and they're applying their "DO Simple" philosophy to AI, focusing on simplicity and ease of use. They're also introducing support for H100 GPUs in DigitalOcean Kubernetes and providing cost-effective, on-demand GPU resources through GPU Droplets, which allow developers to train large language models quickly and deploy their AI solution faster.
Sep 16, 2024
1,387 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean is launching a new Agent for managed Kubernetes backups through its SnapShooter solution, making it easier to create and manage backups of databases in DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS). The new feature allows users to install the Agent into their chosen namespace and container with one click, and will be available for setup and managing backup jobs almost immediately. This solution is designed to better serve customers who have struggled with setting up DOKS clusters or had issues with backup reliability. The pricing for this service remains consistent across all tiers, with users able to determine the backup frequency, retention policies, and storage location simply and easily.
Sep 12, 2024
285 words in the original blog post.
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source projects that takes place every October. The event was started in 2013 and has since grown to become a global phenomenon, with thousands of contributors participating from over 184 countries. This year's Hacktoberfest will kick off on October 1st and will run until the end of the month. During this time, participants will be encouraged to contribute to open-source projects by creating four pull/merge requests that are accepted by project maintainers. Participants who complete these tasks will earn a digital badge and will have the opportunity to share their experience on social media using the official hashtag #hacktoberfest. Hacktoberfest also partners with Major League Hacking for Global Hack Week, a monthly event series where developers can learn new skills, build their portfolio, and connect with other developers from around the world. The event is supported by sponsors such as DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Quira, who provide funding and resources to make the event possible. Overall, Hacktoberfest aims to promote open-source projects and bring together a community of contributors and maintainers from around the world.
Sep 03, 2024
716 words in the original blog post.
August 2024:
11 posts
We are excited to announce the Early Access launch of GPU-enabled worker nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS), now featuring NVIDIA's latest H100 GPUs, designed to democratize AI/ML development within Kubernetes environments and make advanced capabilities accessible to businesses of all sizes. Our new offering provides a scalable, accessible, and cost-effective solution for businesses eager to harness the power of AI/ML within their Kubernetes clusters, tailored to meet the demands of modern AI/ML workloads with enhanced features to support AI/ML training and inference. We invite you to join our early access program and start exploring the possibilities of GPU-enabled worker nodes on DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
Aug 30, 2024
323 words in the original blog post.
You can sign up for DigitalOcean Spaces and receive $200 of credit to try their product over 60 days. DigitalOcean Spaces is now available in the London data center, making it more accessible than ever. This launch allows you to store and serve your data closer to your users in the UK and Europe, enhancing performance. The service is designed for handling large amounts of unstructured data like images, videos, backups, and web assets, with a built-in CDN to minimize page load times and improve performance. DigitalOcean Spaces helps make unstructured data storage and delivery easy, reliable, and affordable, making it an ideal solution for developers and businesses seeking scalable and cost-effective storage.
Aug 29, 2024
327 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced the progressive rollout of three new predefined roles for its Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) offering, designed to enhance security, granularize control over resources, and reduce risk. These roles include Modifier, Billing viewer, and Resource viewer, which allow users to update, view billing information, or access resources without deleting them. The new roles provide benefits such as enhanced security, operational efficiency, improved compliance, cost savings, role adaptability, and simplified administration. Customers can invite team members to these new roles, manage their permissions, and adjust roles as needed, streamlining user management tasks and reducing manual errors.
Aug 27, 2024
863 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has launched a new feature called Per-Bucket Bandwidth Billing for DigitalOcean Spaces, which provides an improved level of transparency and control over bandwidth usage. This feature allows customers to better understand and manage their costs by breaking down the costs associated with direct origin traffic, CDN traffic, and daily usage. The feature offers granular bandwidth breakdowns on invoices and month-to-date summaries, enabling users to track and manage their bandwidth costs more effectively and prevent overages. This new functionality is particularly beneficial for agencies, startups, web and media hosting businesses, and SaaS providers who need to accurately allocate costs for client-specific buckets. DigitalOcean aims to simplify cloud infrastructure and make it more accessible and manageable for businesses of all sizes.
Aug 15, 2024
592 words in the original blog post.
This article discusses disaster recovery best practices for DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters, focusing on the importance of planning and preparing for unexpected events such as data center outages, hardware failures, or security breaches. It highlights the need to identify critical infrastructure pieces, set Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), regularly test and verify backups, document procedures, and use backup solutions like SnapShooter to simplify the process. The article also addresses common challenges such as data breaches, extended downtime, and certificate rate limit issues, and provides recommendations for mitigating these risks, including using secret managers, persistent volumes, and GitOps models. Additionally, it discusses the importance of high availability, admission webhooks, role-based access controls, and securing the Kubernetes environment to ensure a resilient and secure cluster.
Aug 14, 2024
1,610 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced that it will be renaming its "Managed Database with Redis" product to "Managed Caching", following Redis's updated trademark policy. As of March 20, 2024, all upcoming Redis versions will be released under source-available licenses, and the product will no longer be distributed under the three-clause BSD license. The change in name does not affect the services or functionality provided by Managed Caching, which remains a robust, scalable, and fully-managed database engine for growing digital businesses. Customers do not need to take any action to continue using the service, and it continues to offer automated backups, updates, and monitoring, as well as high availability, automatic failover, and predictable pricing.
Aug 14, 2024
494 words in the original blog post.
The DigitalOcean team successfully migrated their React-based frontend architecture from a monolithic repository to a monorepo, achieving significant benefits in terms of developer velocity and code organization. The migration involved several stages, including making the change easy, colocating apps, and optimizing the monorepo. The team used automation scripts to manage the process, minimizing human error and ensuring reproducibility. Key takeaways include the importance of careful planning, effective communication with developers, and a focus on measurement and optimization during the migration process. The monorepo has enabled faster deployment, easier maintenance, and improved isolation of dependencies, leading to a more scalable and resilient frontend architecture.
Aug 13, 2024
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Ari Kalfus and Tim Lisko from DigitalOcean share their experience of redesigning their vulnerability management program to incorporate a "security debt" approach, which has resulted in proactive self-service remediation by product owners, improved accountability, and a more nuanced understanding of security risk. By measuring the amount of time security issues remain unresolved past an expected remediation timeframe, teams are incentivized to prioritize high-severity issues first, reducing timeline disruption and enabling business leaders to take ownership of security work. The approach has been well-received by stakeholders across the organization, with some even adopting similar models for their own metrics. DigitalOcean's experience highlights the importance of collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement in implementing effective vulnerability management programs.
Aug 12, 2024
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App Platform simplifies the deployment and management of distributed apps by allowing developers to focus on coding and application logic, while App Platform handles the infrastructure. The platform offers a streamlined approach to handling complex architectures through features like Log Forwarding, Insights, and Alerts. By forwarding logs to Managed OpenSearch, users can gain deeper insights and make debugging easier, enhancing observability in their distributed applications.
Aug 08, 2024
553 words in the original blog post.
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DigitalOcean aims to support businesses as they grow by providing specialized solutions for running applications with performance and stability. DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines that run on top of virtualized hardware, allowing users to create new servers or use them as part of a larger infrastructure. The company has introduced Premium Memory-Optimized and Premium Storage-Optimized Droplets, designed for memory-intensive and large data set applications respectively. These droplets offer up to 10 Gbps of outbound data transfer, making them suitable for bandwidth-intensive use cases such as streaming and gaming. They are now available in multiple data centers, including AMS3, SFO3, LON1, and SGP1, and can be easily used with the control panel. DigitalOcean's sales team is also available to discuss using their services in businesses.
Aug 01, 2024
404 words in the original blog post.
This monthly round-up from DigitalOcean covers various topics such as backups, product updates, upcoming events, and new tutorials. The company emphasizes the importance of backups in maintaining customer trust and avoiding privacy breaches. It highlights its robust backup solutions, including Backup as a Service (BaaS), and provides resources for learning more about these services. Additionally, the round-up mentions new features like GPU Droplets, HIPAA Covered Products, and the Beta release of the Global Load Balancer. It also promotes various training sessions, webinars, and surveys to engage with developers and businesses. Overall, this round-up aims to provide valuable information and resources for DigitalOcean customers and users.
Aug 01, 2024
868 words in the original blog post.
July 2024:
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OpenSearch, an open-source search and analytics engine, uses K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) vector search capabilities to provide more advanced search functionalities. This technology involves representing data as vectors that encapsulate its attributes, allowing machine learning models to embed the data into these vectors. The OpenSearch cluster can handle large volumes of data and queries efficiently using approximate nearest neighbor algorithms, making it suitable for diverse applications such as customer support chatbots, e-commerce platforms, and fashion retailers. K-NN vector search enhances recommendation systems by finding items similar to a user's preferences based on vector representations, and it also enables image retrieval by converting images into vectors. However, balancing vector dimensions with performance requirements and ensuring data normalization are crucial for the accuracy of K-NN search results.
Jul 31, 2024
982 words in the original blog post.
You can sign up for the DigitalOcean Partner Program, which offers diverse opportunities for collaboration and growth. The program is designed to help partners unlock new opportunities and deliver exceptional customer experiences through developer-friendly products and a vibrant community. As a partner, you can benefit from expert guidance on go-to-market activities, discounts on DigitalOcean services, and flexible partner tiers to select the option that best aligns with your business needs. Additionally, joining the Hatch program offers a 12-month DigitalOcean credit to optimize your infrastructure and resources, allowing you to scale your operations without immediate financial burden.
Jul 30, 2024
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The DigitalOcean team successfully scaled their managed load balancer product to support over 1 million connections, improving scalability and performance for customers. The original architecture used a single Droplet with a reserved IP, but this was replaced by a more scalable solution using a passthrough network load balancer (NLB) deployed on bare metal servers. The NLB leverages BGP and ECMP to distribute traffic across multiple servers, ensuring high availability and reducing the need for complex VPC management. Katran, an eBPF program, sits between the NIC and kernel networking stack, enabling highly performant packet processing. The new architecture allows customers to scale their load balancers with predictable pricing and redundancy, providing a consistent product experience as they evolve their deployments.
Jul 25, 2024
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DigitalOcean aims to simplify cloud security for its users by abstracting security complexities and providing guidance on basic security practices. The company works with partners like Kloudle and ScoutSuite, an open-source tool that scans for misconfigurations across various cloud services. DigitalOcean's integration with ScoutSuite enables customers to identify and remediate potential security risks before they can be exploited by malicious actors. By leveraging this powerful tool, organizations using DigitalOcean can enhance the security of their cloud environments and stay ahead of evolving threats in the rapidly changing threat landscape.
Jul 24, 2024
851 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has made significant product announcements in the first half of the year, including enhancements to its flagship virtual event Deploy, new features such as Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) and Generative AI capabilities, and the launch of GPU Droplets offering virtualized GPUs for running large-scale AI workloads. The company also introduced a 96 vCPU Premium CPU-Optimized droplet in NYC1 and NYC3, a Global Load Balancer to balance HTTP traffic across regions, and VPC Peering to connect two different VPCs within an account or between different regions. These updates aim to meet the evolving needs of developers and growing businesses, with a focus on simplicity, developer-friendly platforms, and cloud technology advancements such as generative AI and GPUs.
Jul 17, 2024
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DigitalOcean has launched its Global Load Balancer in Beta, a solution designed to bolster application resiliency and minimize end-user latency. This service eliminates single points of failure and addresses the challenges faced by traditional global load balancing solutions, such as steep learning curves and unpredictable pricing. The DigitalOcean Global Load Balancer is intuitive, predictably priced, and tailored for small to medium-sized businesses, providing features like dynamic multi-region failover, edge caching, and built-in DDoS protection. Pricing starts at $15 per month for a base fee of 1 TB of CDN data transfer and includes allowances for requests and CDN data transfers, offering price predictability and scalability as needed. The service is currently available in all data centers except NYC1, with plans to extend support to other regions and services in the future.
Jul 09, 2024
552 words in the original blog post.
App Platform aims to simplify microservices architecture by allowing users to add multiple components on the same app, enabling separate scaling of web service APIs and backend processing services. This enables developers to scale resources-intensive services like backend processing with Dedicated CPU instances that autoscale based on demand, while sharing a fixed-scale Shared CPU instance for redundancy. App Platform also integrates with DigitalOcean Managed Kafka Offering, simplifying environment variable configuration and allowing users to focus on building their app rather than infrastructure setup. The platform provides a seamless integration with Kafka, enabling the producer-consumer pattern needed in microservices architectures, and is currently being iteratively improved with features like secure Kafka connections and enhanced user experience for environment variables setup.
Jul 02, 2024
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DigitalOcean has announced a security issue with OpenSSH (sshd) that affects some Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, AlmaLinux, and RockyLinux. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain remote root access on vulnerable systems, but the exploit requires winning a race condition which can take several hours. DigitalOcean is asking its customers to upgrade SSHD on their Droplets and providing instructions for how to update SSHD on Dropets. Some products, such as App Platform, Container Registry, Functions, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, Monitoring, Networking, Spaces, Spaces CDN, Volumes, and VPC are not affected by the vulnerability. DigitalOcean is also taking action to ensure its internal environment is patched. Customers can update OpenSSH using interactive or non-interactive commands depending on their system configuration.
Jul 02, 2024
545 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced that select products can now host electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) in compliance with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The company has undergone a rigorous review of its systems to ensure HIPAA requirements are met, maintaining various security certifications such as SOC 2 and CSA STAR Level 1. To process HIPAA workloads, customers must review and accept DigitalOcean's Business Associate Agreement (BAA), which can be obtained through their Customer Success representative or sales team. The company has also published HIPAA Architecture Guidance to provide best practices for using the covered product suite.
Jul 01, 2024
286 words in the original blog post.
June 2024:
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DigitalOcean has strengthened its partnerships, including the collaboration with PureDome to enhance endpoint security and cloud services for startups. The partnership also offers advanced protection, global reach, scalability, access to cutting-edge technologies, and compliance to meet regulatory requirements. Additionally, DigitalOcean is assisting in the migration of Azure Media Services to its platform through a user-friendly interface and global network reliability. The company has also welcomed several new partners to its partner family, expanding its list of world-class brands, including Ashewa Technology Solutions SC, Captain Spec, WEWP, Iotree Minds LLP, Finecons Private Ltd, Black Hawk, Negócios Digitais LTDA, Seertree Global Services, Iynosis Technologies, Caystard Group, Commerce Right, MusQueteer, CLOUDOFIN, MS2 Digital, Creole Studios, B Systems, Gaiasce company Gss subsidiary, Kodelauget AS. These partners can leverage DigitalOcean's developer-friendly products and global community to grow their revenue and deliver exceptional products to their customers.
Jun 28, 2024
358 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced the release of the fifth generation of Intel's Xeon Scalable Processors, codenamed Emerald Rapids, to its premium dedicated fleet. The new processors deliver impressive performance gains over prior generations and will result in significant performance and experience improvements for DigitalOcean users and their customers. With the introduction of these new processors, DigitalOcean is also introducing 80 PLUS Titanium Grade power supplies, which are on average 2% more efficient than Platinum, reducing power consumption and environmental impacts. The Emerald Rapids processors demonstrate a roughly 30% improvement in throughput per system for most benchmarks and show marked improvements in core performance and storage performance over the previous Ice Lake generation. The pricing for Droplets has not changed with the introduction of these new processors, allowing users to deliver faster customer experiences without increasing costs.
Jun 24, 2024
467 words in the original blog post.
At DigitalOcean, they aim to support founders and businesses in navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape by providing a comprehensive suite of solutions and tailored support. The company is now offering a limited-time partnership opportunity to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), which includes free environment assessment and migration services, up to $10,000 in marketing funds, access to their developer community, early access to new product releases, and strategic partnerships. By partnering with DigitalOcean, businesses can accelerate growth, enhance their value proposition, and stay ahead of the curve with the latest technologies.
Jun 24, 2024
332 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has launched Managed OpenSearch, a comprehensive solution designed to simplify log analysis, troubleshooting, and application performance optimization. This platform makes it easy to gather and analyze application logs, providing features such as robust search functionality, customizable log retention, enhanced security, scaling capabilities, and integration with multiple sources. Successful customers like Gleap and RepostExchange have leveraged Managed OpenSearch to streamline their log management, reduce latency, improve security, and gain real-time insights into their data. With predictable pricing and flat rates, this solution offers a cost-effective way for growing digital businesses to optimize their application performance and make data-driven decisions.
Jun 18, 2024
881 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has introduced a major new feature called log forwarding for its Managed Databases service, allowing users to centralize log management and transmit log data to third-party log management providers. This feature enables customers to leverage log forwarding to send logs to popular solutions like OpenSearch, Papertrail, Datadog, and Logtail, providing a wealth of benefits for application troubleshooting, security monitoring, and performance optimization. With log forwarding, users can seamlessly configure log forwarding directly from their managed database through the DigitalOcean API or within the App Platform user interface, forward logs to DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch, or any external provider that suits their needs. Log forwarding empowers a wide range of use cases for DigitalOcean's Managed Database and App Platform customers, including ISVs, IoT businesses, marketing analytics teams, SaaS applications, and SMB customers who utilize both Managed Databases and App Platform, providing improved log visibility to enhance troubleshooting, security threat detection, and data-driven decision-making.
Jun 17, 2024
586 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced two new features for its Managed Database for Redis offering: the ability to add up to two additional nodes to existing clusters, and support for using standby nodes to serve read requests. These enhancements aim to increase scalability, performance, and availability of Redis clusters and applications, empowering developers to build more performant and scalable applications. Adding a standby node is simple and can be done through a guided process, while using standby nodes for reads can improve overall performance and responsiveness by offloading read traffic from the primary node.
Jun 13, 2024
591 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has announced the availability of two new feature enhancements to its Managed Service for MongoDB: MongoDB 7.0 and advanced configuration options. These updates aim to improve the user experience, particularly with enhanced performance, scalability, security, and customization capabilities. With these features, users can now deploy MongoDB 7.0 on DigitalOcean, which introduces substantial improvements in handling time-series data, including better storage optimization, compression, and query performance, as well as greater scalability and overall enhanced performance. Additionally, advanced configuration options provide users with granular control over their database environment, allowing them to tailor settings and configurations to their exact specifications or application needs. These features are designed to empower businesses to maximize the value of their database investment, drive innovation, and quickly adapt to changing application and database needs.
Jun 11, 2024
751 words in the original blog post.
Microsoft has declared the planned retirement of Azure Media Services by June 30, 2024, emphasizing the need for a seamless transition. DigitalOcean is highlighted as a natural choice for migration due to its robust infrastructure, customer success commitment, transparent pricing models, and seamless integration with Ant Media Server. To transition, users can create an Ant Media Server Enterprise Edition Droplet on DigitalOcean, choosing a suitable instance type based on their use case. The platform offers strong reliability, performance, flexible pricing, and comprehensive support, ensuring uninterrupted streaming services even during peak demand.
Jun 11, 2024
386 words in the original blog post.
The partnership between PureDome and DigitalOcean aims to simplify the digital transformation journey for startups, developers, and growing digital businesses by protecting their digital assets. This collaboration integrates PureDome's advanced security expertise with DigitalOcean's robust cloud services and infrastructure, enabling organizations to achieve a cloud-native experience without compromising on top-tier security. The partnership benefits from DigitalOcean's global data centers, scalable cloud services, access to cutting-edge technologies, compliance certifications, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable infrastructure, making it easier for customers to implement and manage their security solutions.
Jun 10, 2024
476 words in the original blog post.
This article is part of a 6-part series on DigitalOcean Kubernetes best practices targeted at SMBs and startups. The series covers various aspects of Kubernetes adoption, including scaling, observability, reliability, disaster recovery, security, and more. In this fourth segment, the focus is on scalability, with an emphasis on challenges faced by small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and strategies for addressing these challenges. Key points include adhering to well-established practices in Kubernetes and cloud-native computing, utilizing autoscaling mechanisms such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler (CA), optimizing application start-up time, scaling DNS at three layers, and implementing network load testing and resilience measures to handle Kubernetes API latency and failures. By following these best practices, SMBs can build Kubernetes environments that effectively handle the demands of their growing business.
Jun 06, 2024
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May 2024:
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Deploy is DigitalOcean's signature virtual conference, a platform for developers, startups, and founders to learn from experts, connect, and be inspired to build their vision on the cloud. The event will take place on July 9, 2024, featuring new speakers, sessions, and product updates that attendees won't want to miss. Deploy is free and open to everyone, offering valuable developer and technical sessions on the latest advancements in the cloud, as well as business leadership sessions and a community forum for networking. Attendees will get a sneak peek at upcoming DigitalOcean product releases, behind-the-scenes looks at engineering processes, and updates on popular products like App Platform, with the opportunity to connect with a vibrant community of founders and developers.
May 28, 2024
416 words in the original blog post.
As the demand for virtual private servers (VPS) grows, businesses must carefully choose between providers like DigitalOcean and AWS Lightsail, which offer distinct cloud solutions tailored to different needs. DigitalOcean is known for its simplicity, transparent pricing, and developer-friendly approach, making it a popular choice among startups and small to medium-sized businesses. It provides a range of Droplets, managed hosting, and easy-to-use interfaces that enable seamless scaling and cost management. In contrast, AWS Lightsail integrates within the broader AWS ecosystem, offering a more complex array of services and potentially higher costs due to inter-regional data transfer fees and intricate pricing structures. Both platforms offer scalable and high-performing VPS solutions, but the choice between them often hinges on specific business requirements, budget considerations, and the potential need for integration with the broader AWS infrastructure. While DigitalOcean offers straightforward pricing and robust support plans, AWS Lightsail may present challenges with potential vendor lock-in and pricing complexities, particularly for advanced use cases or those requiring extensive AWS service integration.
May 28, 2024
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This article is part of a series on DigitalOcean Kubernetes best practices targeted at SMBs and startups, focusing on reliability in Part 3. Reliability refers to an application's ability to work as expected in different situations. To ensure reliability, it's crucial to adhere to well-established practices in Kubernetes and cloud-native computing while considering the specific requirements and characteristics of your application. This includes understanding your application's demands, such as compute-bound, memory-bound, or I/O-bound applications, and selecting nodes that fit the resource profile closely. Node pools allow for grouping similar types of applications or workloads, facilitating better resource management and allocation efficiency. Kubernetes scheduling features like pod affinity and anti-affinity can significantly improve resource utilization. Implementing effective reliability in a Kubernetes environment requires a structured approach and adherence to best practices, including using probes for health monitoring, employing suitable deployment strategies, optimizing pod scheduling, enhancing upgrade resiliency, and leveraging tags in container images. By following these checklists and recommendations, you can build reliable and resilient applications that can withstand failures, recover gracefully, and maintain optimal performance in your Kubernetes cluster.
May 24, 2024
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DigitalOcean's App Platform is a reimagined, next-generation platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering designed to help developers and startups build and scale their apps with ease. The new platform addresses key customer requests, including implementing autoscaling, providing a more flexible pricing model, and allowing for Dedicated IPs. With the introduction of CPU-based autoscaling, users can efficiently handle varying workloads without manual intervention. Additionally, the platform introduces Dedicated Egress IP, which enhances security by enabling IP whitelisting. The revamped App Platform offers simplified packaging with the elimination of tiers, expanded range of dedicated instances, and 35% lower pricing for dedicated instances. It also provides a free tier with $200 in credits for new DigitalOcean accounts, allowing users to get started at no cost.
May 20, 2024
736 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has partnered with On Tap to bring its e-commerce scaling solution onto the robust cloud infrastructure of DigitalOcean, enabling businesses to easily autoscale their platforms and ensure peak performance and cost efficiency. With this partnership, DigitalOcean users can benefit from On Tap's innovative technology that enables real-time automatic resource adjustment in response to fluctuating demands, ensuring uninterrupted service during peak traffic periods. The solution is designed with popular e-commerce platforms such as Magento, Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, and Shopware in mind, offering tailored scaling solutions, ease of implementation, robust infrastructure, cost efficiency, and a peak performance guarantee. On Tap Cloud uses Machine Learning algorithms to make intelligent scaling decisions, simplifying auto-scaling for e-commerce merchants without the need for DevOps experts or specialized server configurations.
May 20, 2024
460 words in the original blog post.
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May 20, 2024
180 words in the original blog post.
The text discusses the improvements made to Backup and Snapshots for Droplets on DigitalOcean. The revamped capability now allows for faster backups, with a significant reduction in time required, making it easier to protect critical data without disrupting ongoing operations. This has been achieved through investments in software and storage hardware, including more efficient tracking of changed blocks on disk and the use of CPU-backed compression algorithms. Another key enhancement is the introduction of daily backup scheduling options, which will be available soon. The new system also features a distributed queuing system for setting individual timers for each backup schedule, reducing backend database load and enhancing scalability. Additionally, improved monitoring and alerting systems have been implemented to track and respond to missed backups more efficiently. The changes aim to provide customers with more control over their backups, including the ability to customize scheduling options and implement a date-based image retention logic. The new Backup and Snapshots capability is currently being rolled out across all global data centers, ensuring that customers worldwide can benefit from these improvements.
May 15, 2024
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Sr. Software Engineer at DigitalOcean has implemented a feature called Dedicated Egress on their App Platform, which allows users to route outbound app traffic through a fixed public IP that is not shared by other App Platform users or apps. This addresses security concerns by allowing users to control the source IP address of their app's network traffic. The feature was built by solving two main technical challenges: allocating and assigning public IP addresses to dedicated egress-enabled apps, and routing egress app traffic via these public IP addresses. To achieve this, DigitalOcean created gateway Droplets that are paired with an app, use Network Address Translation (NAT) to change the source IP address of packets, and configure networking on Kubernetes workers using Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins. The feature provides high availability by creating two Droplets per app and automatically pivoting egress traffic to a healthy gateway Droplet if one is offline.
May 08, 2024
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Scrapable metrics are now available for several managed databases on DigitalOcean, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and Kafka. These metrics provide granular insights into database performance, such as latency, resource utilization, and error rates, allowing users to optimize performance, plan capacity requirements, and quickly troubleshoot issues. With scrapable metrics, customers can export data to monitoring stacks like Prometheus for enhanced visibility and monitoring capabilities, without needing to construct custom scripts. This feature release prioritizes simplicity and ease of use, making it accessible to a wider range of users. By leveraging these metrics, users can identify root causes of performance issues, such as query bottlenecks or resource problems, and make data-driven decisions to improve their databases' efficiency and reliability.
May 06, 2024
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DigitalOcean has upgraded its App Platform infrastructure to a new version of gVisor, which improves runtime performance and reduces the overhead of handling syscalls. The new systrap platform allows for more efficient interception of syscalls, resulting in improved performance for network-bound workloads. The company tested the new version with a minimal Node.js app and a WordPress app, achieving over twice the throughput on the Node.js app and over seven times the throughput on the WordPress app. However, some regressions were found, including incompatibilities with application behavior and issues with the platform itself, which were addressed through close collaboration with the gVisor team. The company took a slow and canary-based approach to rolling out the change across its fleet of clusters, ensuring minimal disruption to users.
May 02, 2024
789 words in the original blog post.
April 2024:
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DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka solution provides a seamless setup process, allowing developers to launch their Kafka clusters with just a few clicks. This offering offers easy access to important Kafka and topic configuration parameters, high availability and reliability thanks to automated failover mechanisms and data replication. Scalability is also key, enabling users to easily scale their Kafka clusters up or down based on their needs. Additionally, DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka includes automated disaster recovery features, built-in monitoring and analytics tools, robust security features, predictable pricing with monthly caps, and 24/7 support. By adopting this solution, developers and businesses can unlock the full potential of Apache Kafka without the complexity of managing it themselves.
Apr 23, 2024
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DigitalOcean has launched a paid public bug bounty program, which is the next step in their long history of collaborating with security researchers to identify security bugs on their platform. The program aims to improve DigitalOcean's security posture and provides a safe, structured method for security researchers to report potential issues without fear of reprisal or legal action. The program has undergone several changes over the years, including an increase in bounty limits and the introduction of a comprehensive program policy. DigitalOcean has received significant feedback from security researchers and has paid out $63,787 in bounty rewards over the last 12 months. The new public program is designed to simplify internal governance while retaining quality and responsiveness to researchers' reports, enabling more people to benefit from finding security bugs on the platform.
Apr 05, 2024
846 words in the original blog post.
The DigitalOcean App Platform is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution that allows users to effortlessly deploy their applications by providing their code or pre-built container images. The platform takes care of the entire application lifecycle, from building and deploying to monitoring and scaling, removing the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure. The platform empowers businesses to build robust, full-fledged business applications with ease, streamlining the process of building, deploying, and scaling complex microservices-based applications. It provides a streamlined approach to building, deploying, and scaling modern applications, enabling businesses to accelerate their digital transformation while optimizing costs and operational efficiency. The platform offers various deployment options, managed databases, component-level scaling, secure database connections, robust protection with Cloudflare, container isolation, dedicated egress IP, application metrics via DigitalOcean Insights, and log analytics, among other features.
Apr 01, 2024
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March 2024:
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DigitalOcean, a cloud platform provider, continues to evolve in response to changing market trends and customer needs. The company's platform simplicity, ease of use, and comprehensive solutions are designed to support the growth journey of startups, independent software vendors, and businesses. DigitalOcean offers cost savings through its pricing model, which can be up to 250% cheaper than other providers like AWS for certain services. The platform also provides negligible egress fees, making it an attractive option for businesses. Additionally, DigitalOcean's managed products offer reliable core-services, enabling ISVs and SMBs to focus on scaling their business. The company has recently expanded its offerings with the introduction of Premium Droplets, which provide faster compute performance and NVMe SSD storage. These updates aim to support fast-moving AI developers and provide a seamless experience for users. DigitalOcean's platform is designed to facilitate frictionless development processes, competitive cost advantage, and outstanding customer service, making it the cloud of choice for developers, startup innovators, growing digital businesses, and ISVs.
Mar 27, 2024
527 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes is a managed Kubernetes platform that provides simplified user experience, fixed and predictable pricing model, ample egress data transfer, and versatile range of virtual machines. Observability is a critical component for identifying issues, resolving them promptly, and optimizing the environment for better performance and resource utilization in complex distributed systems. Observability encompasses metrics, logs, events, and traces, providing a holistic view of system behavior and diagnosing issues more effectively. However, implementing effective observability can present challenges such as data volume and signal-to-noise ratio, storage costs, data correlation and context, alerting and notification management, scaling and multi-cluster observability, security and compliance, and cost control. To address these challenges, ISVs should consider adopting best practices tailored to their specific needs and constraints, leveraging SaaS observability solutions with managed services like Logtail, Papertrail, Datadog, New Relic, Elastic Cloud, or Grafana Cloud, using the kube-prometheus-stack for self-hosted observability, and centralizing observability in multi-cluster environments. Observability is an ongoing journey requiring continuous improvement and adaptation to align with evolving business needs and technological advancements.
Mar 21, 2024
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The DigitalOcean App Platform now offers CPU-based autoscaling for dedicated instances, allowing developers to build applications that can efficiently handle varying loads without manual intervention. This feature enhances the platform's managed solution with automatic horizontal scaling capabilities, optimizing performance and cost. The new autoscaling feature is supported for any app platform component with dedicated instances and can be configured using either the user interface or via appspec. It works by continuously collecting CPU usage metrics from containers running application components, comparing them to a configured threshold, and automatically scaling up or down based on the average CPU utilization.
Mar 20, 2024
539 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has launched a new platform called DigitalOcean Marketplace, where developers can find pre-configured applications and business solutions to quickly get up and running. The platform is designed with simplicity at its core and allows developers to deploy fully tested app environments with just one click. As part of this launch, DigitalOcean is now offering software license subscriptions as Add-Ons within the marketplace, enabling customers to purchase licenses directly through the platform. This update aims to simplify the process of provisioning licenses for deployed software, allowing users to centralize their billing and management through the DigitalOcean console. The addition of license add-ons also enables vendors to expand rapidly and streamline access to the DigitalOcean user base.
Mar 18, 2024
458 words in the original blog post.
DigitalOcean has launched paid support plans as part of its commitment to being a business-ready cloud provider, offering tailored plans for businesses running mission-critical applications. The DigitalOcean Support Plans provide fast response times and hands-on technical advice, enabling businesses to focus on building their applications while dedicated support teams optimize their cloud infrastructure. The company is introducing new features at no additional cost, including customer monthly reports, higher API limits, and enhanced security measures, aiming to provide customers with greater peace of mind and support for their workloads.
Mar 04, 2024
449 words in the original blog post.
February 2024:
8 posts
<|fim_start|>`DigitalOcean's Kubernetes (DOKS) offers a fully managed, CNCF-compliant platform for streamlining operations and reducing overhead costs. DOKS provides a simplified user experience, fixed and predictable pricing models, ample egress data transfer, versatile virtual machines, marketplace add-ons for day 2 operations, and exceptional customer success stories from various industries. To maximize developer productivity, tools like k9s, stern, and Skaffold can be utilized. The Inner Loop Development approach optimizes the development cycle by monitoring file changes and automatically updating the environment in real-time. CI/CD readiness involves selecting the right tools and combining DevOps practices and automation to significantly influence success. A 4-stage pipeline for deploying code to multiple environments using ArgoCD is also discussed, focusing on Git repository management, build pipeline execution, application manifest configuration, and rollout strategy. The blog series will explore resilience, efficiency, security, observability, reliability and scale, disaster preparedness, and security in upcoming parts.
Feb 26, 2024
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DigitalOcean has announced a new feature for its Managed Kafka service, Horizontal Scaling, which enables customers to handle increasing data volumes and traffic by adding more nodes to their existing clusters. This allows for improved performance, scalability on demand, enhanced resilience, fault tolerance, and improved reliability. With this new feature, customers can right-provision nodes/brokers in alignment with fluctuating workload requirements, ensuring peak workload performance. The service also includes Scalable Storage, which enables customers to add more storage with a single setting, priced at just $2/month per increment. This allows for increased disk storage capacity and Kafka Clusters now have more storage options, scaling up to 1.5 TB of storage.
Feb 23, 2024
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DigitalOcean has announced a strategic partnership with Tabnine, allowing users to purchase Tabnine's Pro plans directly from their DigitalOcean account. This partnership aims to simplify software development for technical users worldwide by leveraging Tabnine's AI coding assistant, which can accelerate and simplify the entire software development lifecycle process without compromising on privacy, security, and compliance. The tool offers various use cases such as code generation, unit testing, bug fixing, documentation, and maintenance, while also being context-aware and providing recommendations based on coding standards and patterns. DigitalOcean customers will have access to Tabnine Pro plans for 1-10 users with a 25% discount offer, making it easier to leverage AI-powered coding assistants to increase productivity and focus on building innovative applications.
Feb 15, 2024
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DigitalOcean has partnered with Beaconhouse National University (BNU) in Pakistan to empower and champion underrepresented entrepreneurs, particularly women, through a philanthropic endeavor aimed at creating inclusive entrepreneurship opportunities. The partnership will deploy significant investments over the next two years to support entrepreneurs throughout Pakistan, providing them with cash grants, free infrastructure credits, education and tutorials, mentorship, marketing and project management support, and impact measurement assistance. Both partners are focused on opening up as many areas of learning as possible, with DigitalOcean committed to fostering a more inclusive entrepreneurial landscape in regions such as South Asia.
Feb 13, 2024
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DigitalOcean's philanthropic arm, DO Impact, has launched an initiative focused on fostering inclusive entrepreneurship for under-represented founders in key areas. The program aims to provide cash grants, access to DigitalOcean technology, and support from employee volunteers to nonprofits and social enterprises advancing inclusive entrepreneurship. The first grants will be directed towards Pakistan, where small and micro-enterprises are the backbone of the local economy, but women entrepreneurs remain underserved. Two grantees, Behbud Association Karachi and WeeCommerce, have been selected to receive cash grants and access to DigitalOcean infrastructure credits through the DO for Nonprofits & Social Enterprises program. The initiative's priorities include joint learning, storytelling, employee engagement, community, and love, which align with DigitalOcean's company values.
Feb 12, 2024
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DigitalOcean's DO Impact program continued to grow and expand its philanthropic efforts in 2023, with a focus on inclusive entrepreneurship, employee volunteering, and nonprofit product donations. The company gave over $500K+ to more than 725 organizations, supporting initiatives such as the Initiative on Inclusive Entrepreneurship, ERG grants, and the DO Day of Service. DigitalOcean also activated employees through its BrightFunds gift match benefit, which collectively donated over $245K+ to nonprofits worldwide. The program expanded its offerings in 2023, including a new nonprofit product donation program and a re-launched Hollie's Hub for Good initiative, providing $2,500 in one-time credits to nonprofits and social enterprises. As the company looks ahead to future investments and initiatives, it aims to focus on driving inclusive entrepreneurship, scaling its nonprofit product donations, and expanding its storytelling of its nonprofit customers.
Feb 09, 2024
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DigitalOcean has introduced daily backups for its Droplet virtual machines, providing small to medium-sized businesses with a crucial element of their data protection strategy. The new feature aligns with the rhythm of business dynamics, enabling companies to match their data protection with their growing needs. It also helps protect against security breaches, accidental deletion, and user error, allowing businesses to innovate without worries about data loss. With daily backups, SMBs can adhere to compliance requirements better, reduce the risk of data disruptions, and ensure the availability of business-critical data. The feature is easy to set up and manage from DigitalOcean's cloud console, and its pricing is competitive at 30% of the Droplet cost.
Feb 08, 2024
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The integration of Cilium Hubble into DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) service provides advanced observability and security capabilities at no additional cost. Cilium Hubble offers network visibility and security, enabling users to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their microservices with ease. The tool uses eBPF to provide deep visibility into the networking and behavior of services and infrastructure. With the integration, DigitalOcean Kubernetes users gain deeper insights into their Kubernetes deployments, including real-time network flows, service dependencies, and potential security vulnerabilities.
Feb 01, 2024
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The Dolphin project is a fleet optimization system developed by the Fleet Optimization Engineering team at DigitalOcean. Its primary goal is to ensure that Droplets (virtual machines) are distributed across servers in a way that maximizes performance and minimizes downtime. The system uses a combination of machine learning algorithms, event storming, and deliberate design to achieve this goal. Dolphin consists of three main components: the Monitor, which detects potential issues; the Rebalancer, which moves Droplets to resolve these issues; and the Workload Journey Manager, which enforces rules to prevent excessive migration. The system has been successful in reducing downtime and improving performance for DigitalOcean's customers. Its technology can also be used to address other operational challenges, such as full disk storage issues, by automatically detecting when a server is running low on disk space and moving Droplets away from it.
Jan 23, 2024
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Aaqib Gadit, Chief Revenue Officer at DigitalOcean, is highlighting the platform's benefits for startups, growing digital businesses, and independent software vendors (ISVs). DigitalOcean stands out from hyperscalers with its foundational simplicity, ease of use, comprehensive solutions, and robust developer community. The company serves thousands of ISVs and startups on its platform, offering simplified platform experience, competitive cost advantage, and outstanding customer service. Key features include affordable pricing, managed infrastructure, App Platform for building and deploying apps quickly, Paperspace for GPU-backed AI development, and DigitalOcean Kubernetes for powerfully simple managed Kubernetes services. The mission is to provide tools and infrastructure for exponential scaling and acceleration of success.
Jan 22, 2024
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Paperspace has announced the availability of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU instances, offering superior performance and competitive cost savings for startups and growing digital businesses. The new instances are powered by the NVIDIA Transformer Engine and 4th Gen Tensor Cores, delivering up to 9x faster AI training and up to 30x faster AI-inference speedups on large language models compared to previous-generation GPUs. Paperspace now offers these powerful GPUs as both on-demand and reserved instances, with multi-node H100 GPU deployment enabling scaling of GPU power to handle large and complex models. The platform also features a holistic compute solution, including GPUs, Ubuntu Linux images, private network, SSD-based storage, public IPs, and snapshots, starting at $2.24/hr per chip. Paperspace provides 24/7 reliability, unlimited bandwidth, and per-second billing options to help customers save costs. The company's pricing is designed to be flexible, with transparent per-second pricing model combined with zero data ingress and egress fees.
Jan 18, 2024
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The Hacktoberfest community survey provided valuable insights into the event's impact, challenges faced by participants, and suggestions for improvement. The overwhelming majority of respondents (78%) expressed positive sentiments about the event, citing its learning, connection, career, and project development opportunities as key benefits. However, many participants struggled with completing the challenge due to insufficient time between other work commitments and lack of motivation from the reward system, with some even opting out of participating in future events. The survey also highlighted the importance of providing incentives that are meaningful to contributors, such as free merchandise or recognition. The community suggested improving the event's promotion and discovery tools, addressing issues related to spam and low-quality pull requests, and enhancing the experience for maintainers and project organizers. The feedback gathered will be instrumental in shaping Hacktoberfest #11 and ensuring its continued success in fostering a supportive open-source community.
Jan 17, 2024
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