Question

IP my Digital Ocean App

Posted on October 17, 2020
Docker DigitalOcean App Platform MongoDB Python
Asked by michaldev

I required ip address of my server for MongoDB Atlas whitelist. I don’t see it in control panel.

I’ve tried:

Ping host on my pc and getting this ip.
By console on DO App control panel and python interpreter, like this:

from requests import get

ip = get('https://api.ipify.org').text
print('My public IP address is:', ip)

This 2 methods returns 2 differences ip address. Unfortunately, neither of them doesn’t work with Atlas MongoDB.

P.S. My app is in docker file.

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• May 8, 2024

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

Quick update here, you can now add dedicated egress IP addresses to your apps on App Platform. Dedicated egress IP addresses allow your app to connect to resources outside of DigitalOcean using a publicly available static IP address.

Dedicated egress IP addresses are a paid feature that allows your app to connect to resources outside of DigitalOcean using a static IP address and allow you to restrict external resources to receive only outgoing traffic from your app. Dedicated egress IP addresses persist through redeployments but are removed from the app if you disable the feature or the app is destroyed.

You can add a dedicated egress IPs to your app after you deploy the app. To do so, in the DigitalOcean Control Panel, go to the Apps page and click your app. Click the Settings tab, scroll to the Dedicated Egress IP Addresses section, and then click the Edit button beside the section.

In the Edit menu, click the Add Dedicated Egress IP button. This assigns two IP addresses to your app and triggers a redeployment.

To remove a dedicated egress IP address, in the same Edit menu, click Release Dedicated Egress IPs. This removes the IP addresses from the app and triggers a redeployment. Once IP addresses have been released, the same addresses cannot be re-added to the app.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

Moises Eskinazi

DigitalOcean Employee

• October 19, 2020

Hi michaldev,

We currently don’t provide external IP addresses for apps in App Platform.

To use MongoDB Atlas with App Platform today, you’ll have to add the CIDR block 0.0.0.0/0 to your access list entries in MongoDB Atlas. Make sure that you have strong credentials, since this will allow access from anywhere.

Best, Moises

Fredriks • October 10, 2022

Bumping this thread. Have this change since the question was last answered? It’s a make it or break it, to much risk to open Atlas Mongo to the whole world as suggested.