- How to Configure Advanced Load Balancer Settings in Kubernetes Clusters
- How to Connect to a DigitalOcean Kubernetes Cluster
- How to Add Load Balancers to Kubernetes Clusters
- Build and Deploy Your First Image to Your First Cluster
- How to Enable Cluster Autoscaler for a DigitalOcean Kubernetes Cluster
- How to Add Volumes to Kubernetes Clusters
- How to Create Kubernetes Clusters
- DigitalOcean Kubernetes Changelog
- Kubernetes Quickstart
- How to Troubleshoot Load Balancer Health Check Issues
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
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DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a Kubernetes service with a fully managed control plane, high availability, and autoscaling. DOKS integrates with standard Kubernetes toolchains and DigitalOcean’s load balancers, volumes, CPU and GPU Droplets, API, and CLI.
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 with 99.95% uptime SLA 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.
Latest Updates
7 May 2025
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for DOKS clusters. You can choose these GPUs when creating new clusters or adding node pools to existing clusters using the control panel and the API with the
gpu-4000adax1-20gbandgpu-6000adax1-48gbslug respectively.
30 April 2025
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The DOKS Cluster Autoscaler is now in general availability. See Scaling to Zero for recommendations to follow for scaling a node pool down to zero.
31 March 2025
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DOKS now supports up to 1000 worker nodes per cluster, allowing you to run larger workloads within a single cluster. You can create 1000-node clusters using the DigitalOcean API or CLI. To learn more, see Scale Up to 1000 Nodes Per Cluster.
For more information, see all Kubernetes release notes.