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Droplets

DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines (VMs). Each Droplet you create is a new server you can use. Choose from a variety of Droplet plans to get the right resources (like CPU, RAM, and storage) for your workload.

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy Kubernetes clusters without the complexities of handling the control plane and containerized infrastructure. Clusters are compatible with standard Kubernetes toolchains and integrate natively with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and volumes.

App Platform

App Platform is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that deploys applications from Git repositories or container images. It automatically builds, deploys, and scales components while handling all underlying infrastructure.

Functions

DigitalOcean Functions is a function as a service (FaaS) offering that lets you run your local serverless code in the cloud using Node.js, Python, Go, or PHP without managing any backend infrastructure.

Cloudways

Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform where teams can build, deploy, and scale web applications.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

• App Platform’s XL build resources (8 CPUs and 20 GiB of memory during builds) are now enabled for all apps by default. The xl-build flag is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Remove xl-build from your app spec to avoid potential errors once the flag is fully retired.

9 September 2026

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public preview. You can run worker nodes on interruptible Spot GPU capacity for AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X and NVIDIA B300 GPUs, at a lower, variable rate than on-demand GPU nodes.

  Spot GPU node pools work with the cluster autoscaler, and you can pair them with an on-demand GPU node pool as a configurable fallback. For supported GPU shapes, regions, pricing, and behavior, see Spot GPU node pools.

1 September 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.

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather than only protected by a firewall.

  Outbound traffic, including node provisioning and container image pulls, routes through a VPC NAT Gateway, and other resources in the same VPC reach the nodes over private addresses. The Kubernetes API server stays publicly reachable so you can still manage the cluster. You enable isolation when you create a cluster running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

25 August 2026

• v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacenters. They run on 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors for higher per-core performance and let you size compute, memory, storage, and networking independently. Choose Shared for shared vCPUs or General Purpose for dedicated vCPUs. v5 Droplets are billed per second at an hourly rate without a monthly usage cap.

  DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) supports a subset of v5 configurations in these datacenters, with 50 GiB or 80 GiB boot disks. For details, see How to Create a Droplet, Choosing the Right CPU Droplet Plan, and Choosing the Right Kubernetes Plan.

For more information, see the full release notes.