Streamline Your Workflow: Announcing Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform

Streamline Your Workflow: Announcing Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform The Core Concept Configuring Environments in the UI Managing Environments with doctl Step 1: Create an Environment-Tagged Project Step 2: Create an App and Assign it to the Project Step 3: Find an App’s Environment Accelerate Your Workflow with App Cloning Start Organizing About the author(s) Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Evaluate your AI agents faster and more effectively GPU Observability: Get Deeper Insights into Your Droplets and DOKS Clusters Image and audio models from fal now available on DigitalOcean By Waverly Swinton and Bikram Gupta Published: November 25, 2025 5 min read As developers, we love building, but we also know that as an application portfolio grows, managing it gets complicated. The line between your production services, your staging environment, and your new feature-branch deployments can blur. Keeping track of which app serves which purpose and quickly identifying all your “production” apps at a glance becomes a significant organizational challenge. We’re excited to announce a powerful new way to manage this complexity: Environment Support for DigitalOcean App Platform, powered by DigitalOcean Projects. We’re also introducing App Cloning , a new feature to replicate your apps in just a few clicks. This feature allows you to explicitly tag your resource groups (Projects) with a specific environment, such as Development, Staging, or Production and then assign your App Platform apps to those projects. This gives you a high-level, filterable view of your entire application landscape, right from the control panel and via the CLI. The logic is simple but effective: A Project is a “bucket” for your resources. You can group Droplets, Load Balancers, Databases, and App Platform Apps into a single Project. A Project is a “bucket” for your resources. You can group Droplets, Load Balancers, Databases, and App Platform Apps into a single Project. A Project can now be assigned an environment.