DigitalOcean Automation & Approval Workflows
Run DigitalOcean on autopilot. Keep the veto.
48 actions
A script fires off new Droplets, deletes images, or rewrites firewall rules before you've seen what changed. Rills proposes each action; you approve before it goes out.
Interactive. No signup. 14 days free · approvals always free.
Most automation fires first, asks later. Rills shows you the change before it ships.
Every consequential other action from DigitalOcean arrives on your phone first. Approve in seconds. Decline without explaining yourself. Workflows wait, paused at zero cost, until you decide.
Queue 3
Delete 3 unused firewalls with no attached Droplets?
3 firewalls · 0 resources attached for 30+ days
Matches cleanup pattern approved twice last quarter
No active rules overlap with current VPC config
Free to wait. Free to think.
Approvals and logic don't cost a credit. Pause a workflow for three hours or three weeks. The price is the same: zero. You only pay when something real happens: an AI call, an outbound action.
Approve from your phone in five seconds.
Swipe right when you're sure. Decline when you're not. Between meetings, mid-coffee, on the train. No dashboard to babysit, no inbox triage, no 3am stomach-drop wondering what shipped while you slept.
Routine cases graduate themselves.
Every approval feeds a confidence score for that exact workflow shape. The obvious cases (the ones you've green-lit fifty times) start running on their own. The judgment calls still come to you.
About DigitalOcean automation
Cloud infrastructure is unforgiving. A wrong firewall rule goes out, a VPC gets deleted, or a domain record gets overwritten, and the next thing you hear is that something stopped working.
When DigitalOcean runs unsupervised
Automated infrastructure changes ship fast, and the ones you regret ship fastest of all.
- Create New Droplet spins up compute you didn't budget for, and the bill arrives before you notice.
- Delete Image removes a snapshot you were keeping as a rollback point, with no undo.
- Delete Firewall opens ports that were closed for a reason, silently.
- Create Domain Record points traffic somewhere wrong before DNS propagates everywhere.
- Delete VPC tears down network boundaries that other resources depend on.
What Rills does inside DigitalOcean
Rills sits between your DigitalOcean automation logic and the actions that actually change your infrastructure. Before a new Droplet spins up, a firewall gets created or removed, or a domain record ships, Rills surfaces the proposal with context so you can approve or reject it as a concrete decision rather than a surprise.
The Droplet still launches. You just see exactly what it is before it goes live.
Why DigitalOcean has no triggers and how Rills fills the gap
DigitalOcean does not emit events that can start a workflow on their own. Rills compensates by letting you attach DigitalOcean actions to schedules, upstream signals, or other tools that do fire events.
- A nightly schedule runs List All Snapshots and flags any that are older than your retention policy for your review.
- A cost-threshold alert from your billing tool kicks off List All Images so you can approve a cleanup before charges compound.
- A deploy signal from your CI tool proposes a Create New Droplet with the right size and region, waiting for your call before anything provisions.
- A periodic check runs List Domain Records and surfaces any records that don't match your expected state, so drift gets caught before it causes an outage.
This is what approve DigitalOcean changes looks like in practice: not a dashboard you watch, but a queue that waits for you. Cloud infrastructure category decisions carry real consequences, and Rills holds them until you're ready.
What Rills can do in DigitalOcean
6 of 48 actions across reads, writes, and updates.
- 01
Create Domain Record
Creates a new DNS record for your domain, allowing you to configure email routing, subdomains, or connect services to your domain. This enables you to manage how traffic and communications are directed to your website and online properties.
- 02
Create New Droplet
Provision a new virtual machine on DigitalOcean with your chosen specifications like region, size, and operating system image. This lets you quickly spin up server infrastructure without manual setup through the dashboard.
- 03
Create New Tag
Create a new tag in DigitalOcean to organize and categorize your cloud resources like servers, images, and databases for easier management and identification.
- 04
Delete Existing Droplet
Permanently removes a Droplet instance from your DigitalOcean account, freeing up resources and stopping associated charges. Use this when you no longer need a server or want to clean up your infrastructure.
- 05
List All Domains
Retrieve a complete list of all DNS domains configured in your DigitalOcean account, including their settings and zone file information. Use this to get an overview of your domains or find specific ones before managing DNS records.
- 06
List All Droplets
Retrieve a complete list of all virtual machines (Droplets) in your DigitalOcean account with their configurations, status, and networking details. Use this to monitor your infrastructure, track resource allocation, and manage your cloud environment.