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Digital Ocean

Deploy OpenClaw to Digital Ocean

Simple droplets and App Platform for straightforward deployment.

01

Create a Droplet

Create a droplet from the Digital Ocean dashboard. Choose Ubuntu 22.04 and at least 1GB RAM.

# Or use doctl CLI

doctl compute droplet create openclaw --image ubuntu-22-04-x64 --size s-1vcpu-1gb --region nyc1

02

SSH and Install

Connect to your droplet and install OpenClaw.

# SSH into droplet

ssh root@your-droplet-ip

git clone https://github.com/example/openclaw.git

cd openclaw && npm install