That's currently in development for 2017, it's towards the end of this year. As we make more progress that timeline will get tightened up. But it is something we are actively working on and it was kicked off in the tail end of 2016.
I'm surprised this wasn't upvoted higher. Having multiple servers without the ability to connect them in a secure network doesn't really make sense. Ofc you can DIY with VPNs but it is really a service that a cloud host should provide.
I was wondering recently if you could use Wireguard VPN networking to overlay your own encrypted network at Digital Ocean.
I'm using tinc for that. It's much less hassle compared to securing every single connection between your hosts.
Looking forward to not care about this anymore. Secure private networking out of the box is now all that's left for me to stay on DO.
Can you elaborate on your comment? Do D.O. instances all share the same vlan?
Yes, they do.
What?! Is that made public anywhere? I have not heard that before. Why don't they have an overlay? I would think this is a non-starter for many(most?) businesses.
I think it's pretty clearly explained in DigitalOcean's docs. They have a public interface and a private interface. The private interface is not Internet routable but is routable by all other instances in the datacenter. I agree that it is a non-starter for me, but it's definitely public.