Containers and Images

DigitalOcean provides a variety of images that you can use to create Droplets and Kubernetes clusters, like Linux distributions, container distributions, 1-Click Applications, and a container image registry.

In addition, you can take snapshots for on-demand disk images of Droplets and volumes, enable backups for automatic weekly Droplet images, and upload custom images to create Droplets with other operating systems or pre-packaged libraries. You can manage the images you create or upload to your account in the Images section of the control panel.

Snapshots

Create snapshots to save on-demand copies of DigitalOcean Droplets or volumes to your account. Use snapshots to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.

Backups

Enable backups to automatically create system-level disk images of Droplets on a weekly schedule with no configuration required.

SnapShooter

SnapShooter is a cloud backup and recovery solution. Use SnapShooter to back up servers, volumes, databases, and applications from DigitalOcean and other cloud providers.

Marketplace

Create new Droplets or Kubernetes clusters with 1-Click Apps preconfigured for WordPress, LAMP, Ghost, and hundreds more.

Custom Images

Upload custom images to use guest operating systems and pre-packaged libraries on DigitalOcean Droplets.

DigitalOcean Container Registry

Store Docker images in your own private registry.

Upcoming Changes

• SnapShooter will remove support for Exoscale on 1 May 2024, due to Exoscale API deprecations.

  Customers who will no longer require snapshot services after this change should contact support for a prorated refund.

Latest Updates

25 April 2024

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (ubuntu-24-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 April 2024

• We’ve corrected a bug where image types other than snapshots could be listed using the GET /v2/snapshots endpoint. This behavior was strictly limited to image types that the user was properly authorized to access, such as backups and custom images.

15 April 2024

• Daily image backups are now available in SGP1.

For more information, see the full release notes.