If you look at this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-droplet-metadata
You’ll see the ip address: 169.254.169.254
Where is that coming from if you are creating a new droplet?
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It’s an internal address DO (and other cloud providers) use to provide metadata.