1.18.3-do.0

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service. Deploy Kubernetes clusters with a fully managed control plane, high availability, autoscaling, and native integration with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and volumes. You can add node pools using shared and dedicated CPUs, and NVIDIA H100 GPUs in a single GPU or 8 GPU configuration. DOKS clusters are compatible with standard Kubernetes toolchains and the DigitalOcean API and CLI.



Important Upgrade Notes For Volume Snapshot Users

Starting with DigitalOcean Kubernetes 1.18, alpha versions of volume snapshots are no longer supported. If existing volume snapshots meet the upgrade requirements, they will be converted automatically to the beta version of a volume snapshot when upgrading a cluster to 1.18.

Alpha versions of volume snapshots can continue to be used with versions prior to 1.18.

Consult the volume snapshots migration notes before upgrading.


  • First 1.18.x release
  • Upgrades to system components:
  • Added support for migrating load balancers across clusters (see the guide for details)
    • Updated to DO CSI v2.0.0
      • Removed support for alpha snapshots
      • Added support for beta snapshots (consult the volume snapshot migration notes for details)
    • Updated to DOKS Cluster Autoscaler 1.18.3-do.0
    • Exposed kube-proxy Prometheus metrics endpoint on :10249/metrics