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Is Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes as a service vanilla open source Kubernetes

Posted on October 8, 2019

Is Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes as a service vanilla open source Kubernetes? Does Digital Ocean provides an abstraction layer and modify/overwrite open source Kubernetes?



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I believe that the managed Kubernetes solution is a fork of Kuberenetes customized to meet DigitalOcean’s needs and services. I don’t believe that their fork is opensource but even if it was I can’t think of a case that you would want to use it rather than the official one.

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