App Platform -- Static IP | Voters

App Platform -- Static IP

Matthew Walden

We should be able to securely whitelist our infrastructure to access external resources, without apps being able to be given static IP addresses we can not use the service without opening our infrastructure to security problems.

December 25, 2021

Bikram Gupta

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Hi, This is Bikram (Product manager for App Platform). I wanted to let you know that we are transitioning this feature (dedicated ip) from closed beta to EA, and it should be available by end of this month (April).

Bikram Gupta

flexwebapp

Bikram Gupta
Awesome! Can you already share what it looks like for the dashboard?
Will it be under Networking > Reserved IPs but instead of droplets now also apps including or something?

Bikram Gupta

flexwebapp It is an app platform specific configuration, and will be under app platform settings page for your specific app.

Mitch Ryan

Bikram Gupta will this be available for apps under any plan - or only "dedicated" Pro plans (75+ USD/month)?

flexwebapp

Bikram Gupta

Thanks

flexwebapp

Mitch Ryan only for PRO plans, that would be Silly, Just add it in both and charge a few dollars extra for the IP imo

Mitch Ryan

flexwebapp respectfully, I'd prefer if Bikram could answer, thanks.

flexwebapp

Mitch Ryan Of course
But since the feature is available now and Bikram did not have time to answer here is the info you are looking for:
Under your app settings, you can now assign a Dedicated Egress IP Address. It doesn't matter what plan you are on.
For $25.00/month establish a secure connection between your app and non-DigitalOcean systems using Dedicated Egress IPs. Your app will be assigned 2 Dedicated Egress IP addresses to ensure high availability. You can release the IPs at any time.

Robertas

flexwebapp good stuff, thanks for update. Price for this seems quite steep in comparison to droplet prices or reserved(floating) IP prices, thats 12.5 USD/mo per IP. It would be somewhat more affordable if you were allowing to select 1 or 2 dedicated IP addresses. Apart from that its very good, gonna use it after scaling my product a bit more.

Eddy Vinck

Tarrek (Product Manager) any updates? On September 12 2023 you said "Our team is currently working on this feature; we will be able to provide additional updates on an availability timeline in the next few months!"

Not being able to whitelist a static IP is really, really inconvenient

Lokko

How in the world was this not implemented from the start? How is this taking so long?

deepmatter

Tarrek is worthless - they aren't going to implement it or would have by now; it's literally the biggest issue on the App Platform board by like 1000%+. It's impossible to secure apps with DO so just move away from DO if you are building anything serious with apps.

Connor Postma

How has this essential feature still not been implemented?

Devendra Rane

IP whitelisting is one of the core requirements if you are working with any enterprise, particularly in fintech. So without this feature, it will be very difficult to integrate with enterprises.

FELIX CHERUIYOT

@ Tarrek (Product Manager) we urgently need this. Please advise on ETA

SuperWayneBruce

hi, what is the update? IP whitelisting for apps is a must for me, we need something to be able to whitelist specific ip for our apps

Ankit Raj

Any update on this feature?

Batist Leman

Any update on this?

(not a heavy app user, but we're looking for other providers for our apps because of this)

Matt S.

Batist Leman Any recommendations we may do that same.

Batist Leman

Matt S. We’re looking into https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/?nc2=h_ql_prod_ct_ecs but no conclusions yet

Matt S.

Batist Leman yea, not a fan of aws. AWS with my experience has known to kill startups. You have to be very careful or be heavily funded to have your devops constantly optimize and monitor.

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