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App Platform - SSH

Lucas Barboza

It should be possible to make ssh outbound connections from an AP App. I need to execute specific commands on an external server but I cannot reach it from my API deployed on a DO AP App.

June 16, 2022

Awais Malik

marked this post as

open

Awais Malik

marked this post as

complete

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this excellent feedback with us. We now have the support for App Platform component access using CLI/API and you can find more information here. 
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/console/#access-a-specific-instance
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/#4-june-2025
If you have any questions going forward on this, please reach out to our support team at https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/ 
Thank you again for your feedback and we hope you continue to share your needs with us.

Timmy O'Mahony

Awais Malik thanks for the update, but I’m not sure this is the same feature. This feature is related to outbound ssh and sftp access, not inbound.

Timmy O'Mahony

Awais Malik I can confirm that this issue is not complete. You still cannot make connections outbound to port 22

Awais Malik

Timmy O'Mahony Thanks for the follow-up. You are correct with the outbound connections being an issue as the previous update was for Inbound connections. We have transitioned the idea back to 'Open' state and will update here once we have more information on the outbound feature.

Timmy O'Mahony

This is still an issue. I understand why 22 is blocked on incoming connections, but it doesn't need to be blocked on

outgoing

connections. I need to connect to external servers over SFTP from my App Platform instance, but can't as the port is blocked. I don't have control over the external server so can't change the port from 22 to something else. As a workaround, I've created a Droplet running socat to port forward from 80 to 22 on the external server.