1.36.0-do.0
Validated on 21 May 2026 • Last edited on 21 May 2026
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.
- First 1.36.x release
- For DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters on version 1.36.0 and later, the cluster create API enables high availability (HA) by default when the
hafield is not set. To create a cluster without HA, sethatofalse. See How to Create Kubernetes Clusters for details on API clients. - Updates to system components:
- Updated to Kubernetes v1.36.0
- Updated to DO CSI v4.17
- Updated to DO CCM v0.1.67
- Added Node Readiness Controller
v0.3.0withNodeReadinessRuleCRD - Updated Linux kernel to
6.12.88-1
- Changes to AMD GPU worker images:
- Updated to AMD GPU driver 30.30.1
- Removed ROCm from the AMD GPU worker node image. For workloads that need ROCm, use container images that bundle ROCm.