Question

IP address for my app on app platform for whitelisting

I already have my Nodejs app running

Am currently required to provide an IP address for whitelisting to access a USSD service required by my app

Am currently stranded, does someone have an idea of how to proceed ?

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Bobby Iliev
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May 8, 2024
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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

Same here, it should be supported

Sri Charan Madhavapeddi
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July 1, 2021

Hello @drkimpatrick ,

App Platform applications do not have a persistent IP address. Due to dynamic nature, there is no confined IP address that is dedicated for App Platform.

Refer to the limitations on the product:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/#limits

Cheers, Sri Charan

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