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DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.
Free, Managed Kubernetes
Provision and deploy to your Kubernetes cluster in minutes
Productivity
Develop and iterate more rapidly with easy application deployment, release updates, and management of your apps and services.
Resource Efficiency
Kubernetes knows the compute, memory, and storage resources each application needs and schedules instances across the cluster to maximize resource efficiency.
Streamline Operations
Automate application deployments, monitoring, instance replication, cluster scheduling, and seamless application releases.
High Availability
Kubernetes routinely checks the health of your applications to detect and replace instances that are not responsive.
Scalability
Use the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to add instances of your application services as needed to meet demand.
Portability
Applications deployed to DigitalOcean Kubernetes can run anywhere Kubernetes is supported, making it easy to deploy across environments and clouds
“DigitalOcean’s focus on simple features that just work & high value-pricing at scale has resulted in an effortless deployment of Kubernetes. The product has been absolutely instrumental for my team in simplifying our technology stack & focusing on our business.”
“Since we started using DigitalOcean Kubernetes, we need not spend nearly as much time on IT administration, and even developers without an IT background can control our infrastructure.”
"I'm pleasantly surprised how timely the DO Kubernetes/Load Balancer team addressed the source IP issue using Proxy Protocol. Although we are new to Kubernetes, DigitalOcean's managed service has simplified our learning – and even made it enjoyable."
"The control panel allows us to resize our cluster very quickly and painlessly, and abstracting away not only the management but the configuration and security of Kubernetes to DigitalOcean has saved us countless man-hours."
Web Apps
Deploy your web applications to DigitalOcean Kubernetes for easier scaling, higher availability, and lower costs. And use Kubernetes to release new versions seamlessly.
API and Backend Services
Use DigitalOcean Kubernetes to deploy, scale, and manage the services that power your applications. From authentication to message queues to custom app logic, deploying to Kubernetes provides the portability, availability, and efficiency for your services.
CI/CD
Run GitLab core components on DigitalOcean Kubernetes to manage your development lifecycle, or just the Gitlab Runners to easily scale your build and integration pipeline.
Full Kubernetes API
When you provision a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster, we spin up a kubernetes control plane and provide an endpoint to use with the kubectl CLI or any Kubernetes ecosystem tool.
Kubernetes in minutes
Choose the types of worker nodes you’d like, the data center where you’d like to run, and provision your own cluster in minutes. Download your kubeconfig file to start using through the kubectl command-line.
Managed Services
DigitalOcean continuously monitors your Kubernetes Control Plane to make sure you are always able to access and deploy to your cluster.
Open API
Seamlessly integrates with your existing tooling and workflows. The DigitalOcean API makes it easy to create, update and manage your cluster through our API.
Guided Configuration
We'll walk you through the steps to easily connect to your cluster, deploy an application, and add additional resources like storage and load balancers.
Global Availability
Spin up a cluster in locations such as New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt, or Bangalore.
CNCF Certified
DigitalOcean is a gold sponsor of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), of which Kubernetes is a Graduated Project. DigitalOcean Kubernetes is certified as part of the CNCF Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. This means you can easily migrate your existing cluster to DigitalOcean.
Understand Kubernetes deployment status, resource usage, and errors so that you can efficiently size, scale, and tune your cluster.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes includes cluster-level metrics regarding deployment status of Pods, DaemonSets, and StatefulSets.
DaemonSet deployment status reveals whether your nodes are running background daemon pods as specified in your cluster’s configuration.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes also includes cluster resource utilization metrics like CPU, load average, memory usage, and disk usage.
Disk usage is the percent of disk used by all nodes in the cluster. While it will fluctuate, you should maintain disk usage below 90%.
Set alerts on individual worker node resource usage, and get notified via email or Slack.
With full Kubernetes API support, scale with the growing Kubernetes ecosystem
Serverless
Run your serverless framework on DigitalOcean Kubernetes to build advanced applications that use small bits of code deployed as Kubernetes resources that scale automatically.
Accelerate your release lifecycle by running your CI/CD pipeline on top of DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Iterate more quickly with faster builds and zero-downtime deploys.
Observability & Analysis
Understand what is going on with your application using metrics, logging, and tracing across your service instances.
Service Mesh
Implement security and traffic policies, load balance, monitor and trace service requests without making any code changes.
Application Definition
Streamline the installation and management of Kubernetes applications by declaring, provisioning and configuring your cloud native applications on DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
“The Kubernetes service from @digitalocean is looking to be one of the easiest and quickest I've used so far.”
“DigitalOcean delivers highly configurable virtual instances with an intuitive user interface and integrations with services such as Kubernetes. The price is superb for growing small and medium enterprises.”
“When we were looking for a Kubernetes provider, we first tried Google Kubernetes Engine, but weren't impressed with its pricing or their service. With DigitalOcean, we get strong API support, clear pricing, and fast and friendly customer support. The difference is night and day.”
DigitalOcean Kubernetes includes a master server instance for free.
Pricing for Kubernetes workloads is based on actual usage by the applications you deploy to your cluster. This includes Droplets, and may include persistent Block Storage, and Load Balancers.
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Running Cloud Native Applications on DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
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