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title: "DigitalOcean | Skills We Assign For | Azendo"
description: "DigitalOcean as a cloud provider — predictable pricing, smaller catalogue, and the Azendo roles assigned for it."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/digitalocean/"
---

[Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) Cloud and infrastructure 

# DigitalOcean.

DigitalOcean is a cloud provider offering virtual machines, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage and load balancers with simpler pricing and a smaller service catalogue than the major hyperscalers.

## Where DigitalOcean fits on a long engagement.

The appeal is predictability. Flat pricing, generous included bandwidth and a service catalogue small enough to understand mean a team can reason about both their infrastructure and their bill without a specialist. For products that need compute, a database and storage, the hyperscaler catalogue is largely irrelevant complexity.

The limits are real at the top end. Fewer regions, no equivalent to the deeper managed services, and less sophisticated identity and compliance tooling. A product that grows into needing those faces a migration, which is a fair trade for years of simplicity but should be a known one.

## What an assigned team does with DigitalOcean.

Choosing a provider on catalogue breadth rather than on what a product will actually use is a common and expensive mistake. Most applications use a small fraction of what a hyperscaler offers while paying the complexity cost of all of it.

Making that assessment honestly at scoping is part of the work, and how scope is agreed before anything is committed is described in [how an assignment runs](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/).

## What we use DigitalOcean for.

* Infrastructure a small team can reason about A catalogue and a bill that do not require a dedicated specialist to understand.
* Predictable cost including bandwidth Flat pricing, so a traffic spike does not produce a surprise transfer charge.
* Managed Kubernetes without the surrounding complexity A cluster with the essentials, where the hyperscaler feature set would go unused.

## How DigitalOcean capacity is assigned.

Provider selection is a scoping decision made against what the product will actually use. The capacity to run it is agreed as a [committed monthly capacity](https://azendo.co/pricing/) across the platform discipline.

## Service lines it sits in

* [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/cloud-and-devops/)

Capacity is agreed as a committed monthly capacity across a discipline, not per skill.

## Related in cloud and infrastructure

* [Kubernetes — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/kubernetes/)
* [Docker — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/docker/)
* [Terraform — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/terraform/)
* [AWS — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/aws/)
* [Azure — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/azure/)
* [GCP — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/gcp/)
* [Terraform modules — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/terraform-modules/)
* [Pulumi — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/pulumi/)

## Tell us what your roadmap needs DigitalOcean for.

A service delivery manager replies with the disciplines we would assign, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[All skills we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/)