Bikram Gupta Thanks for the Update Bikram. Can we also expect something for Private only or Internal VPCs? That will be a deadly combo. Thank you

Bikram Gupta is there any update on this, how close are we to a beta?

Bikram Gupta is there any news for this?

this is pretty important for our project.

Florian W. I can confirm that it is in execution right now. Given the length of work and dependencies involved, I will share a private preview (beta) date soon as we are closer.

Question for you: Does your use case require egress communication (App Platform to DB, App Platform to Droplet, App Platform to DOKS pods) in the same VPC? Or does it also involve the reverse (Droplet to App Platform communication in the same VPC)?

Bikram Gupta That's amazing to hear!

Our Current Project State only requires egress (App to Droplet, App to DB, App to App).

But being able to communicate from Droplet to App would be lovely aswell, and open up some new Potentials. (The Old PaaS we want to migrate off only supports one way communication).

Bikram Gupta only App to DB currently.

Bikram Gupta this is important for Elixir/Erlang clustering

Clava Mantock We have had to migrate everything to Droplets again. Performance with App Platform is very bad. Waiting this feature since 2020...

It is sad that Digital Ocean does not seem to have a credible update on this and unwilling to share a road map or timeline for when this will be in place. I regularly check this thread for updates on this hoping that it would be addressed soon. I see where they announced DOKS improved networking with VPC and VPC peering, and hoping that was a precursor to App Platform in VPC. Again Bikram Gupta any update on this.

Clava Mantock David G I apologize for the delay in responding. VPC integration is currently at the top of our engineering team’s priority list, and we’ll keep this group updated as we get closer to the beta phase.

On the latency side, we’ve conducted additional testing based on the feedback from Clava Mantock. Our initial assessment suggests that the trustedsource integration may be contributing to the latency in the app platform → database path. We are actively reviewing if there’s a feasible short-term solution, and I’ll let you know if we make any progress on that front.

David G Clava Mantock Sorry I still do not have a date yet for the private preview (beta), and will come back in 2-3 months with a fixed date.

Question for you: Does your use case require egress communication (App Platform to DB, App Platform to Droplet, App Platform to DOKS pods) in the same VPC? Or does it also involve the reverse (Droplet to App Platform communication in the same VPC)?

From your notes above, I read it is primarily to have App Platform to DB in the same VPC.

Bikram Gupta Thank you for the update!

For our use case, we only require communication from App Platform to the database within the same VPC.

Looking forward to hearing more once you have a fixed date.

Bikram Gupta Thanks for the update, we require communication from App Platform to database in same VPC

Bikram Gupta we've been praying for this and I'm checking this post every week hoping for updates 😂

Hopefully we can join you folks for a beta preview soon? 🙏

For what it's worth, we're mostly trying to solve App <-> App and App -> DB

bubblez Thank you for your patience. Just wanted to let you know that VPC integration is being actively worked on. We will share an update as we approach the beta.

bubblez We made a migration to App platform and we had to migrate again to Droplets. We are waiting for this feature.

Bikram Gupta any estimate of when there will be a beta? I have emails from last year from digitalocean saying it's on the roadmap....

David G Thank you for your patience. I can confirm that it is being worked on, and will share a timeline as soon as available.

We really appreciated your feedback on latency in the thread below. On digging further, we could confirm that the latency was due to the TrustedSource feature, and not VPC. That said, TrustedSource for DBs will not be relevant after VPC integration, so the latency problem will go away.

Bikram Gupta any update or timeline on this? Apps deployed on App Platform that need to interact with managed database performance is considerable slower than droplets.

David G I had exactly the same experience. I was very glad to finally migrate my infra to a dockerized environment and looking forward to use the app platform. But as soon as I started using it I realised that it was much slower than my old VPS with VPC.

It's very strange that such essential feature did not come out of the box. The only thing I can imagine is that DO have the apps of App Platform somewhere else and that's why we've been without VPC for so long.

I'm looking for an alternative outside DO in the meantime, because I'm not coming back to vps.

I think that the app platform is very good, but for applications that do not require high performance.

We have been waiting for a long time. This post is from 2020 and last year digitalocean already told me that it was on the roadmap. But they have never given a date.

We are looking at specialists to migrate to Amazon AWS. For example AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, etc.

We have done some testing with AWS and the performance is much better