DigitalOcean simplicity. Multi-cloud visibility.
DigitalOcean is usually where fast-moving teams start: a few Droplets, a load balancer, a managed database, set up in an afternoon without much process around it. Sencai doesn't change any of that — it connects to the DigitalOcean account you already run and puts it on the same map as whatever else your team is running or about to add, from Hetzner to AWS to a rack of on-premise servers. The parts of that setup you'll actually need later — an audit trail, cost visibility, a second provider without a second workflow to learn — are in place from the day you connect, not bolted on once someone asks for them.
Bring your DigitalOcean account as it is
Connect the DigitalOcean account you already run — nothing about it changes on DigitalOcean's side. Your contract, your billing, and your support relationship stay exactly where they are. Sencai stores your API credentials encrypted at rest and only uses them for the actions you authorize; you can revoke access at DigitalOcean at any time, no migration required in either direction. If you'd rather not hold a second provider relationship as you add more infrastructure, Sencai can provision and bill DigitalOcean capacity under its own account instead — one contract, one invoice, DigitalOcean's cost plus a 2% margin shown separately on the statement. Both models work inside the same organisation, so a team that starts on bring-your-own-cloud can add managed capacity later, or the other way around, without re-platforming anything.
What Sencai sees the moment you connect
The moment a DigitalOcean account is connected, Sencai inventories what's already running — Droplets, networks, storage volumes, and DNS zones — without moving or touching any of it. This is read access first: nothing in your DigitalOcean environment comes under active management until you opt a specific resource in. That matters if your DigitalOcean footprint grew the way most startups' do — project by project, added by whoever needed a Droplet that week, with no single list of what's actually running. Connecting gives you a current, complete picture of it instead of a wiki page nobody's touched in a year. The same inventory view sits next to whatever else you run in Hetzner, AWS, Vultr, or any other connected provider, so DigitalOcean stops being the account nobody has the full picture of.
Provision the same way, on DigitalOcean and everywhere else
Once you've opted resources in, day-to-day work on DigitalOcean goes through the same screens and the same workflow you'd use for any other connected provider: provision a new Droplet, resize it, stop it, or destroy it, without switching into DigitalOcean's own console to do it. That consistency is the actual point once a team outgrows a single cloud — nobody is learning a new interface for every provider they add, and a new hire doesn't need separate training for DigitalOcean versus whatever else the team runs by then. DigitalOcean stays your fastest option for spinning something up; Sencai just keeps it inside the same operating model as the rest of your infrastructure instead of leaving it as its own island once you're no longer a single-cloud team.
An audit trail and a cost picture you didn't have to build
Every action taken through Sencai on your DigitalOcean resources — provisioning a Droplet, resizing it, tearing it down — lands in an append-only, hash-chained audit log. "Who changed this, and when" becomes a query you run, not a thread you start. It's the record most small teams don't think they need until a customer's security questionnaire, an enterprise deal, or an incident review asks for it. Alongside it, Sencai gives you cost visibility and anomaly detection for DigitalOcean spend next to every other connected provider, in one place — useful on its own with a single provider, and the natural next step once DigitalOcean is no longer the only cloud a growing team runs.
Frequently asked
Does connecting DigitalOcean move my Droplets anywhere?
No. Connecting a DigitalOcean account under bring-your-own-cloud doesn't move, copy, or migrate anything — your Droplets, networks, and storage stay exactly where they are, billed by DigitalOcean as usual. Sencai reads them and carries out the actions you authorize — provisioning, resizing, stopping, destroying — through the DigitalOcean API, using credentials you provide and can revoke at any time.
Do I keep paying DigitalOcean directly?
By default, yes — bring-your-own-cloud keeps your existing DigitalOcean billing relationship untouched. If you'd rather consolidate, Sencai can provision DigitalOcean capacity under its own account and bill you once, at DigitalOcean's cost plus a 2% margin shown separately. Both options can sit in the same organisation, so you're not locked into one model for every provider you connect.
Does Sencai replace the DigitalOcean control panel?
Not for anything DigitalOcean-specific — its own console still exists and still works. What Sencai adds is a second, provider-agnostic layer for the work that repeats across every cloud you run: provisioning, inventory, an audit trail, and cost visibility. Most teams keep DigitalOcean's console for edge cases and use Sencai for the day-to-day work that now spans more than one provider.
We're a small team on DigitalOcean today — why set this up before we're actually multi-cloud?
Most DigitalOcean customers on Sencai start exactly here, for that reason. The inventory, audit log, and cost visibility work the same on day one with a single provider as they do once you've added a second or third, so connecting now costs you nothing in complexity — and means there's already a real audit trail in place before an enterprise customer's security review asks for one you don't have yet.
Does Sencai hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2?
No, and we say so directly rather than imply otherwise. What you get instead is the evidence a security review usually actually asks for: an exportable audit trail, records of processing, a published sub-processor register, a data-residency statement, and a Data Processing Agreement — plus SSO, SCIM, and role-based access control, so DigitalOcean access sits inside the same controls as the rest of your stack.
Connect DigitalOcean in a few minutes
Start on the [free plan](/pricing/) — one user, one organisation, five managed resources, no card and no time limit — or run the full 14-day trial, also with no credit card required. Most teams have DigitalOcean connected and their first resource under management in under 30 minutes.