DigitalOcean announced a major evolution of its DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service (DOKS). This release provides customers effortless scaling up to 1,000 nodes for simplified growth, streamlined and secure networking for easier cloud integration, optimized network routing for faster performance & lower latency, and fully-managed networking tools that significantly reduce operational overhead.
DOKS offers a simple, 1-click experience for cluster creation with optimized defaults, diverse CPU and GPU droplet options, and integrated cloud resources. Customers can effortlessly scale their infrastructure to meet demand, from everyday workloads to unexpected traffic spikes – along with straightforward onboarding, and predictable pricing without hidden costs.
“DigitalOcean is excited to announce a major evolution of DOKS, helping growing tech companies overcome scalability and performance barriers with Kubernetes,” said Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, DigitalOcean. “This expansion enables organizations to seamlessly run larger workloads within a single cluster, simplifies secure cloud networking, and significantly reduces operational overhead.”
Key enhancements to DigitalOcean Kubernetes include:
- Seamless scaling: Efficiently scales from a few nodes to 1,000, significantly reducing complexity and operational overhead.
- Simplified VPC networking: VPC-native Kubernetes simplifies network management and improves security, reducing configuration complexity.
- Improved performance at scale: eBPF-based routing enhances data plane latency, bandwidth efficiency, and optimizes network routing for external-facing applications.
- Fully-managed Cilium for higher-performance networking: Accelerates network scaling with autoscaling workloads, minimizing operational management.
NoBid, whose ad-tech platform processes 200 billion auctions monthly across hundreds of containers across 4 regions, handles over 300,000 concurrent requests per second using DOKS.
“DigitalOcean Kubernetes provides NoBid with a powerful platform for our containerized workloads,” said Shawn Petersen, CIO at NoBid. “Additionally, the ability to rapidly scale based on business demand, handle 1.3 PB/month in data egress, along with seamless inter-cluster connectivity with VPC peering were all key differentiators for us to partner with DigitalOcean.”
