Question

How to connect APP to Flexible IP

Posted on April 25, 2022
Docker DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by sergio t. ruiz

I am setting up an APP in DO to be able to take advantage of the flexible IP addresses. I built my app and pushed it to the container registry, and the application is running.

When I tried to connect my APP to a Flexible IP, it looks like only Droplets can attach to the Flexible IP.

Do I have other options in setting this up if this is the case?

Thanks!

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• May 8, 2024

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

Quick update here, you can now add dedicated egress IP addresses to your apps on App Platform. Dedicated egress IP addresses allow your app to connect to resources outside of DigitalOcean using a publicly available static IP address.

Dedicated egress IP addresses are a paid feature that allows your app to connect to resources outside of DigitalOcean using a static IP address and allow you to restrict external resources to receive only outgoing traffic from your app. Dedicated egress IP addresses persist through redeployments but are removed from the app if you disable the feature or the app is destroyed.

You can add a dedicated egress IPs to your app after you deploy the app. To do so, in the DigitalOcean Control Panel, go to the Apps page and click your app. Click the Settings tab, scroll to the Dedicated Egress IP Addresses section, and then click the Edit button beside the section.

In the Edit menu, click the Add Dedicated Egress IP button. This assigns two IP addresses to your app and triggers a redeployment.

To remove a dedicated egress IP address, in the same Edit menu, click Release Dedicated Egress IPs. This removes the IP addresses from the app and triggers a redeployment. Once IP addresses have been released, the same addresses cannot be re-added to the app.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• April 26, 2022

Hey @sergiot-ruiz,

Floating IP addresses can not be attached to the App platform.

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.