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Kubernetes OIDC authentication?

Posted on May 31, 2025

As already issued in this idea, is there the possibility to configure OIDC on DOKS? Is it a planned feature? I was also wondering if it’s possible to reach out to the support and ask to have the OIDC setup done by DigitalOcean.

Thank you in advance, I am loving DOKS and this would be a great addition!



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Hi there,

As far as I know, DOKS doesn’t support setting up custom OIDC providers directly, it’s all managed through doctl:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/how-to/connect-to-cluster/

I haven’t seen an official way to enable something like Google or Keycloak for direct API access, but maybe there’s a workaround.

You could try reaching out to the DigitalOcean support and see if they can offer more clarity or options:

https://do.co/support

Also, thanks for sharing a link to that idea, I just upvoted it.

- Bobby

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