Static IP addresses¶
Aiven services are normally addressed by their hostname. There are some situations however where static IP addresses may be needed for your platform, and so these are also available for a small additional charge.
Some common use cases for needing a static IP address might include:
firewall rules for specific IP addresses
tools, such as some proxies, that use IP addresses rather than hostnames
Static IP addresses on the Aiven platform¶
Static IP addresses are created in a specific cloud and belong to a specific project. During their lifecycle, the IP addresses can be in a number of states, and move between states by being created/deleted, by being associated with a service, or when the service is reconfigured to use the static IP addresses. This is summarised in the diagram below:
To create, delete, associate or dissociate IPs, use the Aiven CLI tool. To reconfigure a service, set its static_ips
configuration value to true
to use static IPs, or false
to stop using them.
Note
The static_ip
configuration can only be enabled when enough static IP addresses have been created and associated with the service.
For more information, read the step-by-step process Manage static IP addresses