--- title: DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud... description: DigitalOcean has launched Managed Agents in public preview, a managed cloud infrastructure layer for running AI agents. It combines a Harness Runtime, built on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-managed-agents-brings-managed-cloud-infrastructure-to-ai-agents-ppmhin1ly twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents | daily.dev og:description: DigitalOcean has launched Managed Agents in public preview, a managed cloud infrastructure layer for running AI agents. It combines a Harness Runtime, built on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-managed-agents-brings-managed-cloud-infrastructure-to-ai-agents-ppmhin1ly og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PPmhIN1LY.png og:image:alt: DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DigitalOcean has launched Managed Agents in public preview, a managed cloud infrastructure layer for running AI agents. It combines a Harness Runtime, built on lightweight microVMs that provide persistent, isolated compute for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode), general-purpose agents, and custom LangGraph agents, with an Action Gateway offering a unified MCP endpoint to over 16,000 tools including Web Search, Browser Automation, and connectors for GitHub, HubSpot, and Stripe. Sessions can pause when idle, persist conversational state, and run in parallel across tasks. The gateway adds centralized permission management, human approval for sensitive operations, rate limiting, and retries. Industry commentators praised the cost and performance focus and the pause-when-idle pattern. The launch arrives close to Docker's Cloud Sandboxes, which overlaps at the runtime level but targets local-to-cloud developer workflows rather than DigitalOcean's production-infrastructure focus. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is DigitalOcean Managed Agents and what does it include? DigitalOcean Managed Agents is a managed cloud infrastructure layer for AI agents, launched in public preview, combining two services: a Harness Runtime and an Action Gateway. The Harness Runtime provides persistent, isolated microVM compute for agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Hermes, and custom LangGraph agents, supporting pausing, resuming, and forking sessions. The Action Gateway offers a unified MCP endpoint to over 16,000 tools, including web search, browser automation, and connectors for GitHub, HubSpot, and Stripe. _Engineers scaling production agent workloads can follow infrastructure launches like this one on daily.dev._ ### How does DigitalOcean Managed Agents differ from Docker Cloud Sandboxes? Both use microVM isolation and support persistence, but they target different use cases. Docker Cloud Sandboxes focus on developer workflows, particularly moving a sandbox between local and cloud compute, while DigitalOcean Managed Agents focus on production infrastructure, offering more orchestration and tool support through its Action Gateway and Harness Runtime. _Teams comparing agent runtime platforms can track these infrastructure trade-offs on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Private Preview: DigitalOcean Managed Agents Runtime Services](https://daily.dev/posts/private-preview-digitalocean-managed-agents-runtime-services-vkuqzps49) · DigitalOcean · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Powering the Inference Era: Inside the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/powering-the-inference-era-inside-the-digitalocean-ai-native-cloud-7k9ysjzqn) · DigitalOcean · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#digitalocean](https://daily.dev/tags/digitalocean) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-managed-agents-brings-managed-cloud-infrastructure-to-ai-agents-ppmhin1ly) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-managed-agents-brings-managed-cloud-infrastructure-to-ai-agents-ppmhin1ly","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/digitalocean-managed-agents-brings-managed-cloud-infrastructure-to-ai-agents-ppmhin1ly"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T09:04:18.589Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T22:08:55.034Z","description":"DigitalOcean has launched Managed Agents in public preview, a managed cloud infrastructure layer for running AI agents. 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