# 1.21.5-do.0

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.

- Upgrades to system components:

  - Updated to [Kubernetes v1.21.5](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.21.md#v1215)
  - Updated to [DO CCM v0.1.35](https://github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean-cloud-controller-manager/releases/tag/v0.1.35)

    - Supports specifying the number of nodes to create a Load Balancer with