DigitalOcean Kubernetes

Generated on 17 Apr 2025

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.

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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.

Is Kubernetes Right for Me?

Choosing the best deployment platform for your business.

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High-Availability Control Plane for DOKS Clusters

Maximize reliability with 99.95% uptime SLA for critical workloads and environments.

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Kubernetes Bootstrapper

Framework to set up production-grade clusters.

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Kubernetes Adoption Journey

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

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Case Studies

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

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Marketplace

Learn Kubernetes by starting with one of our preconfigured stacks.

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Latest Updates

31 March 2025

  • 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.

27 March 2025

  • Network load balancers are now in general availability. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers to get started.

  • NVIDIA L40S GPUs are now available for creating new clusters or adding node pools to existing clusters using the control panel and the API with the gpu-l40sx1-48gb slug.

24 March 2025

  • The DOKS Cluster Autoscaler can now scale nodes in a node pool down to zero. This feature is in private preview. See Scaling to Zero for recommendations to follow for scaling down to zero.

  • You can now view the most recent reconciler checks in the DigitalOcean Control Panel. For more information, see Best Practices.

For more information, see all Kubernetes release notes.

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