How to setup App platform in multiple regions

Hello,

There is no option to change the app region directly from the app UI, but you can change it from the app spec file of your app.

follow the instructions below.

• download the app spec file from your app > settings > app spec > download
• edit region in the downloaded file from tor to nyc or sfo whichever suited you best according to the region available in the link https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/availability/
• save the file locally and upload it back to the app > settings > app spec > upload
• it will redeploy the app to the new region.
• if you want to refer app spec file check out the link https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/app-spec/

Hope this helps!

Cheers, Sri Charan

Hi there,

The DigitalOcean App Platform does not natively support multi-region deployment, data replication, or active geo-redundancy out of the box. You would have to manually set up these aspects yourself.

For multi-region availability, you would typically have to set up separate applications in each region, each with their own database.

Data replication can indeed be challenging, with the DigitalOcean Managed database clusters you can add read replicas easily, but having an active-active replication setup is not support. So this would mean that you will need to setup and maintain yourself. For exmaple you could do that with a Galera cluster:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-galera-cluster-with-mysql-on-ubuntu-18-04-servers

I could also suggest this tutorial here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/what-is-high-availability

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby