DigitalOcean Kubernetes

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy Kubernetes clusters without the complexities of handling the control plane and containerized infrastructure. Clusters are compatible with standard Kubernetes toolchains and integrate natively with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and volumes.

Quickstart

Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Tutorials

Step-by-step instructions for common use cases and third-party software integration.

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.

Latest Updates

16 November 2022

• You can now enable high availability on existing Kubernetes clusters. For detailed steps, see our guide.

• DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters originally created with version 1.20 or older have an outdated version of our control plane architecture, which does not allow you to enable high availability. However, you can now upgrade your control plane to our new version. This upgrade option is available for Kubernetes versions currently 1.22 and later.

  To check whether you can upgrade your cluster to the new control plane, see our guide.

13 October 2022

• do-operator, our operator for managing and consuming DigitalOcean resources from a Kubernetes cluster, is now an open-source beta project.

• When creating a new Kubernetes cluster, you can add a free database operator (now in beta), which allows you to automatically link new databases to your cluster. For more details, see our guide.

18 August 2022

• A new CPU-Optimized Droplet plan with more computing power is now available. This plan features 48 vCPUs (up from the previous maximum of 32) and 96 GB of memory (up from the previous maximum of 64).

  This large CPU-Optimized Droplet plan is available where CPU-Optimized Droplets are already available, except for BLR1 and SFO2.

  You can use this plan for both standalone Droplets and Kubernetes nodes. You can also resize your existing Droplets to this node plan.

For more information, see all Kubernetes release notes.