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DigitalOcean
Add DigitalOcean to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
The DigitalOcean API lives at api.digitalocean.com/v2 and takes a personal access token or OAuth token as a bearer credential, with read and write scopes that are set when the token is minted and cannot be widened later. Most mutations are asynchronous: creating or resizing a droplet returns an action object with its own id, and the droplet is not usable until that action reports completed, so a naive create-then-use flow fails intermittently. App Platform is a separate resource tree where an app has a spec and a series of deployments, each with its own phase and build logs. The biggest surprise is Spaces: the S3-compatible object storage does not accept the API token at all and requires a separate access key and secret generated in the control panel. Pagination is cursor-free and driven by links.pages.next, and rate limits are reported in the RateLimit-Remaining header on every response. fastn stores each customer's token with its actual scopes, handles OAuth refresh, and keeps calls attributed to the right team.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let a customer connect their own DigitalOcean account so your product can list their droplets and managed databases without you holding infrastructure credentials
Trigger an App Platform deployment from your own release flow and surface the deployment phase and build logs in your UI
Read managed database connection details and firewall rules so your onboarding can check a customer's setup is reachable
Watch droplet actions and alert a customer when a resize or snapshot fails to reach completed
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
Let an agent list a tenant's droplets and report which are missing backups, with the read scoped to that tenant's token and audited per tenant
Have an agent fetch the last failed App Platform deployment and summarise the build log for an engineer
Allow an agent to check a managed database's firewall rules before a customer opens a support ticket about connectivity
Example prompt
Which of our droplets have automatic backups turned off, and what region are they in?
Set up DigitalOcean in 4 steps
- 01Enable the DigitalOcean connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own DigitalOcean account, so calls run under their credentials rather than a shared key.
- 03Decide which services, builds and deployments your product needs, map those fields, then enable the actions and triggers you want.
- 04Call it from your product and expose it to your agents through the same governed connection.
Why teams use the DigitalOcean integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a DigitalOcean integration without building it. Your customers connect their own DigitalOcean account inside your product and work their services, builds and deployments there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these systems emit a lot of webhooks, and replay after downtime has to be handled. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a DigitalOcean update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed DigitalOcean connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you connect engineering activity to the rest of the business without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a DigitalOcean integration to my product?
Enable the DigitalOcean connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own DigitalOcean account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no DigitalOcean client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own DigitalOcean account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own DigitalOcean account and only ever sees their own services, builds and deployments. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this DigitalOcean integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. Let an agent list a tenant's droplets and report which are missing backups, with the read scoped to that tenant's token and audited per tenant
Who maintains the DigitalOcean integration?
fastn does. When DigitalOcean changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can I react to DigitalOcean events in real time?
Yes, through event triggers. Events are delivered per tenant and can be replayed after an outage, so a webhook missed during downtime is not silently lost.
Can an agent open or update items in DigitalOcean?
Yes, within scoped permissions, and every action is audited so an agent's changes are attributable.
What can I build with the DigitalOcean integration?
A common starting point: let a customer connect their own DigitalOcean account so your product can list their droplets and managed databases without you holding infrastructure credentials. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the DigitalOcean integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding DigitalOcean does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add DigitalOcean to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.