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title: Manage Load Balancing in DigitalOcean Kubernetes
description: Configure and manage load balancers and Gateway API routing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters.
product: Kubernetes
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/load-balancing/
last_updated: "2026-08-12"
---

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# Manage Load Balancing in DigitalOcean Kubernetes

Generated on 12 Aug 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.

[How to Add Load Balancers to Kubernetes Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/add-load-balancers/index.html.md): Declare a DigitalOcean Load Balancer in the cluster manifest to distribute traffic across all worker nodes in the cluster.

[How to Configure Advanced Load Balancer Settings in Kubernetes Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/configure-load-balancers/index.html.md): Configure advanced load balancer settings for sticky sessions, health checks, and always-on SSL.

[How to Migrate Load Balancers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/migrate-load-balancers/index.html.md): Pass load balancer ownership from one service to another.

[How to Delete Load Balancers from Kubernetes Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/delete-load-balancers/index.html.md): Delete a load balancer from a Kubernetes cluster using kubectl to permanently and irreversibly remove it from the cluster and DigitalOcean account.

[How to Use Gateway API to Route Traffic in Kubernetes Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/use-gateway-api/index.html.md): Use Gateway API resources to route external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to services running in your DOKS cluster.