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How to remove public IP from a Droplet in Digital-Ocean Console.

I have created a Kubernetes cluster in Digital-Ocean VPC, It assignes Public IP to every “Node Droplet” in the cluster as default. I don’t want Public IP (ipv4) as I don’t want to make it accessable externaly. I have tried many things like modifing network configuration file /etc/netplan/ and commands like “mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces-old” but no luck in removing public IP from Digital-Ocean console. there surely must have some way to do that.


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Bobby Iliev
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May 6, 2024

Hey @chandrapratap,

Indeed, as of the moment this is not possible.

It looks like someone has had the same idea before and has posted it on our Product Ideas board. The best thing to do would be to head over and add your vote to it, as well as adding any additional information in the comments for exactly what you’d like to see implemented!

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/network/p/remove-requirement-for-public-ip

Hope that helps!

- Bobby.

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