Digitalocean Networking

What it does

This skill automates DigitalOcean networking tasks, enabling AI agents to manage VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds), firewalls, load balancers, reserved IPs, DNS records, IPv6 configuration, and NAT gateways. It simplifies infrastructure setup and maintenance by providing programmatic access to these core DigitalOcean networking services. The skill allows for the creation of private network segments, secure traffic flow, and stable public endpoints.

When to use it

• When designing private networks or segmentation using VPCs.
• When securing inbound and outbound traffic with firewalls.
• When configuring load balancing and DNS records for applications.
• To manage reserved IPs for consistent public endpoints during failover or migration.

Key capabilities

• VPC Management: Create and configure private network segments.
• Firewall Configuration: Define inbound and outbound rules based on protocol and port, applying them to resources.
• Load Balancing: Distribute traffic across backend resources with health checks and TLS termination.
• Reserved IP Management: Assign and re-map reserved public IPs.
• DNS Management: Manage DNS records for DigitalOcean and external resources.
• IPv6 Support: Enable IPv6 for dual-stack networking.
• NAT Gateway Configuration: Provide outbound connectivity from private subnets.

Example prompts

• "Create a VPC in region nyc1."
• "Apply a firewall rule to allow inbound SSH traffic on port 22 to my droplet."
• "Configure DNS records for example.com pointing to my load balancer IP address."

Tips & gotchas

• This skill requires authentication with your DigitalOcean account via API token.
• VPCs must be created in the same region as your compute resources (Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, managed databases).
• Consider using complementary skills like digitalocean-compute, digitalocean-managed-databases, and digitalocean-management for a more complete infrastructure management solution.