DigitalOcean Kubernetes Unlocks Superior Scalability for Growing Businesses

By: DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. via Business Wire

April 02, 2025 at 08:30 AM EDT

Enhanced platform helps eliminate barriers to scale Kubernetes, while allowing businesses to realize greater simplicity and cost-efficiency

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for growing tech companies, today 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.

Customer Commentary:

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."

To learn more about DigitalOcean Kubernetes, please read this blog post, or visit our product page. Additionally, check out the DigitalOcean YouTube channel for informative videos about the new updates.

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is the simplest scalable cloud platform that democratizes cloud and AI for growing tech companies around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI to allow builders to spend more time creating software that changes the world. More than 600,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to deliver the cloud, AI, and ML infrastructure they need to build and scale their organizations. To learn more about DigitalOcean, visit www.digitalocean.com.