App Platform - SSH
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Awais Malik
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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.
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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.
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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.