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Getting Started

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Reference

API and CLI reference documentation for the DigitalOcean Kubernetes service, including example requests and available parameters.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Kubernetes.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Support

Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.

Related Links

Is Kubernetes Right for Me?

Choosing the best deployment platform for your business.

High-Availability Control Plane for DOKS Clusters

Maximize reliability for critical workloads and environments.

Kubernetes Bootstrapper

Framework to set up production-grade clusters.

Kubernetes Adoption Journey

Hands-on tutorial for going from day one to production on DOKS.

Case Studies

How customers build and scale their applications using DOKS and other DigitalOcean services.

Marketplace

Learn Kubernetes by starting with one of our preconfigured stacks.

Changelog

DigitalOcean Kubernetes Changelog

Notable changes for each available version of DigitalOcean Kubernetes and archives of changes for unavailable versions.

Latest Updates

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.

13 August 2026

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU node pools in public preview, starting with DOKS 1.36.3-do.0.

  DRA is an opt-in alternative to the managed GPU device plugins. Workloads that already request GPUs with extended resources such as nvidia.com/gpu or amd.com/gpu continue to work without changes after switching to DRA.

For more information, see all Kubernetes release notes.