Release Note
Last verified 1 Sep 2026
The peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is now in general availability. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has them instead of the origin registry. This reduces the number of pulls that leave the cluster, lowers your exposure to external registries’ rate limits, and speeds up image pulls on clusters that reuse the same images across many nodes.
The plugin is disabled by default and is available on clusters running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.