For AI agents: The documentation index is at https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of pages use the same URL with index.html.md in place of the HTML page (for example, append index.html.md to the directory path instead of opening the HTML document).

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

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.

28 July 2026

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public preview. 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 new clusters running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

8 July 2026

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports automatic node remediation in public preview. DOKS can automatically replace worker nodes that stay unhealthy, based on Kubernetes node conditions and rules you define.

  The Data Plane Operator runs in your cluster, watches node conditions, and replaces a worker when a condition matches your rules for a configured duration. You can act on standard kubelet conditions, such as Ready, and on custom conditions you publish from your own health checks. You configure remediation by deploying the DataPlaneOperatorConfig and NodeRemediationConfig custom resources to your cluster.

For more information, see all Kubernetes release notes.