App Platform

We should be able to disable the starter domain in App Platform or create a 301 redirect to a custom domain. With this not being an option static sites are always duplicated, which is a terrible SEO practice. At the very least it would be nice being able to set a robots.txt file in the starter domain to prevent search engines from indexing it.

When I create an app on App Platform, DO assigns it a random subdomain at “ ondigitalocean.app ”. I can then define a custom domain for this app too. It would be good be able to block access via the default domain. The use case is that we are using Cloudflare Zero Trust to protect an app, and this works fine except for the fact that the protection can be completely bypassed simply by using the default non-custom domain name.

It would be great if there is a possibility to add an IP whitelist to the app to only allow specific IP address to access the app.

We are looking for sending scheduled updates to the users of the application. We are doing I in others platform providers by using configuring CRON jobs. This is a sort of missing feature in App Platform. looking forward to be available soon.

Are there any plans to deploy docker container using docker-compose? I know we can user Dockerfile but it's not feasible. Thank you!

If you have multiple apps on the App Platform, it would be nice to see the current deployment status of each app in the overview table. As it is now, the user has to navigate to each app and then click back to see status of another app.

I would like to see an option to modify Cloudflare behaviour or completely disable it for App Platform, since Cloudflare sometimes acts like a man-in-the-middle and modifies the sourcecode sent by the app, which means you can't really be sure that the client gets what you send from the app.

It would be great if we could use cloud firewalls to control access to deployed applications using App Platform. I've got some private applications that I would deploy using your PaaS offering immediately if I could firewall it off.

The ability to define slack or email alerts via app spec would allow for automating the creation of apps (like via CI/CD, github actions) without having to jump into the web portal. Notifications are especially helpful with automated app creation, as a user can wait and be notified when an app is created + deployed instead of manually polling and checking to see if an app is deployed.

To benefit SEO, I would like to redirect the apex domain ( example.com ) to the www subdomain ( www.example.com ). Currently the HTTP Redirect rules only apply to the paths, and the static website also has the root path / in use. Ideally I can select a domain redirect per domain, and choose the type of redirect e.g. 302, etc. This could also be setup for the starter domain, for the same SEO reasons.