diff --git a/examples/digitalocean/README.md b/examples/digitalocean/README.md
index e3a3d5181..4a349b02b 100644
--- a/examples/digitalocean/README.md
+++ b/examples/digitalocean/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Digital Ocean Droplet launch and setting the Domain records at Digital Ocean.
 
-The example launches an Ubuntu 14.04, runs apt-get update and installs nginx. Also demonstrates how to create DNS records under Domains at DigitalOcean. 
+The example launches an Ubuntu 16.04, runs apt-get update and installs nginx. Also demonstrates how to create DNS records under Domains at DigitalOcean. 
 
 To run, configure your Digital Ocean provider as described in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/do/index.html
 
diff --git a/examples/digitalocean/variable.tf b/examples/digitalocean/variable.tf
index 2068806a4..bffd17fca 100644
--- a/examples/digitalocean/variable.tf
+++ b/examples/digitalocean/variable.tf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Current Available Datacenter Regions
 
-# As of 05-07-2016
+# As of 28-05-2017
 
 #
 
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ variable "do_ams3" {
   default     = "ams3"
 }
 
+variable "do_blr1" {
+  description = "Digital Ocean Bangalore Data Center 1"
+  default     = "blr1"
+}
+
 variable "do_fra1" {
   description = "Digital Ocean Frankfurt Data Center 1"
   default     = "fra1"
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ variable "do_tor1" {
 
 variable "ubuntu" {
   description = "Default LTS"
-  default     = "ubuntu-14-04-x64"
+  default     = "ubuntu-16-04-x64"
 }
 
 variable "centos" {