Technical Deep Dive: How we Created a Security-hardened 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw

Technical Deep Dive: How we Created a Security-hardened 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw Delivering an Image with Safe Defaults Keeping deployments consistent (DevOps) TLS (Keep communications safe and auditable) Authz (Gateway Key + Pairing) Sandboxing (keep safe from Agents) Safe Defaults Deployment Constraints and Upcoming Features After deploy (make it yours!) Get started with the 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw About the author Related Articles Technical Deep Dive: How DigitalOcean and AMD Delivered a 2x Production Inference Performance Increase for Character. ai DoTs SDK Development: Automating TypeScript Client Generation How startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part VI - Security By Freddie Rice Updated: January 30, 2026 5 min read OpenClaw, an open source AI assistant (recently renamed from Moltbot , and earlier Clawdbot), has exploded in popularity over the last few days, and at DigitalOcean we immediately wondered “how can we enable more people to try this new technology safely and easily?” We noticed that there was a lot of interest by folks looking to use this software, but also that there was concern around the security of the open source software, especially when connecting it directly to users’ own machines. We dug in to find a way to deliver this software to our customers as fast as possible, as easily as possible and as safe as possible. At DigitalOcean, our 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw (formerly 1-Click Deploy Moltbot) through our Marketplace enables us to package the latest and greatest software configured for our Droplet® server, and make it easily available to customers. Creating our 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw was the natural next step in getting this to our customers. Toying around with OpenClaw on a local machine is fun, but it could severely impact the ability to deploy and use the software for longer term use and may not meet the safe environment that you need. Some of the benefits to deploying on DigitalOcean include: Always available – the service is available to customers via the web Easy to connect to it – Droplets have a static ip address Vertical scalability – scale up CPUs, memory, and disk storage with higher workloads Cognitive overload – start with basic configs, tweak the ones that matter to you We made a lot of changes as we built the 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw, but the main elements we focused on were How do we communicate with the service safely? How do we keep the agentic code isolated from the rest of the system? How do we prevent attacks from the wider internet? All of that while providing a straightforward deployment UX to our customers! Let’s dig in… Our priority in creating a 1-Click Deploy OpenClaw on our Droplet was twofold: First, speed, as we wanted to get something out quickly to our users. Second was providing a solution that provided additional security benefits. These are the actions we took to meet those goals: We saw that there are multiple ways to deploy the software – we chose the most consistent path, which was picking a stable release from the Git repository on GitHub, pulling it and building from there. Why not pull the latest and greatest from main? Changes are happening at a rapid pace, which is awesome for feature development but can come at the expense of stability. Depending on the minute we build our 1-click image, we could get a working version or a broken version. So we make sure that we can deliver the latest stable version.