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Kubernetes in Minutes

Managed Kubernetes to help grow your business. Start at just $10 per month, and scale-up and save with our free control plane and inexpensive bandwidth.

Launch faster with DigitalOcean Kubernetes

Release faster

Provision and deploy faster, move from one deployment a month to multiple times a day.

Push to deploy
Release faster
Maximize reliability

Maximize reliability

Remove single points of failure with a quick to spin up and scale, free and high-availability control plane.

HA control plane

Scale automatically

Ensure fast performance and control costs with smart, automated adjustments to the number of nodes in your cluster.

Cluster AutoScaler
Scale automatically
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Features included with DigitalOcean Kubernetes

High Availability Control Plane

High Availability Control Plane

Reliably run workloads and remove single points of failure with a secure, self-repairing, highly available control plane.

Kubernetes in minutes

Kubernetes in minutes

Provision and deploy to production-grade Kubernetes clusters with just a few clicks—and get your app to market faster.

Managed services

Managed services

Leave the Kubernetes infrastructure to us so you can focus on building world-changing apps.

Full Kubernetes API

Full Kubernetes API

Provision a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster and we provide a control plane and endpoint to use with the kubectl CLI or any Kubernetes ecosystem tool.

Autoscaling

Autoscaling

Scale vertically as well as horizontally with cluster autoscaling (CA) and horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA).

Auto upgrades

Auto upgrades

Schedule automatic updates to new versions of Kubernetes, so you can make use of enhancements to the orchestration platform.

Simplified Day-2 Ops

Simplified Day-2 Ops

Go beyond setting up Kubernetes clusters to creating a faster development cycle with our hands-on command-line tutorials and guided configuration.

Open API

Open API

Seamlessly integrate our APIs with your existing tooling and workflows to easily create, update, and manage your cluster.

Global availability

Global availability

Spin up a cluster in locations such as New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt, or Bangalore.

See DigitalOcean Kubernetes in action

Learn how to quickly and easily spin up a Kubernetes cluster.

DigitalOcean Kubernetes pricing

DigitalOcean Kubernetes includes the control plane for free (unlike other clouds that charge more than $70 per month). Pricing for Kubernetes workloads is based on the other resources required by your cluster, e.g. Droplets and associated Block Storage and Load Balancers.

Learn more on our pricing page
DigitalOcean Kubernetes pricing

Talk with a Kubernetes expert

Have questions about migrating from another cloud provider or what scaling up on DigitalOcean might cost? Schedule a meeting with our team of experts to get your questions answered.

Start fast with Kubernetes 1-Click Apps

Create clusters that run preconfigured open source software. Install user-facing applications like blogs, chat, or sidecars to better operate your own containers

Monitoring Stack

Monitoring Stack

Create websites that are fast, secure, and highly scalable.

Linkerd

Linkerd

Add security, observability, and reliability to your cluster with Linkerd.

OpenFaaS

OpenFaaS

Deploy serverless functions and more to via our OpenFaaS API.

Grafana Loki

Grafana Loki

Easily aggregate logs with a simple Grafana Loki API.

Kubernetes Resource Center

Learn more about building and deploying microservices with a robust library of Kubernetes assets.

CNCF Certified

CNCF Certified

DigitalOcean Kubernetes is certified as part of the CNCF Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program, allowing you to easily migrate your existing cluster to DigitalOcean.

Learn more about CNCF

Start building today

Sign up now and you'll be up and running on DigitalOcean in just minutes.

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