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Compute
Validated on 24 Jan 2025 • Last edited on 31 Jan 2025
Build your application the way you want with our suite of compute products including VMs, managed containers, PaaS, and serverless functions.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy Kubernetes clusters without the complexities of handling the control plane and containerized infrastructure. Clusters are compatible with standard Kubernetes toolchains and integrate natively with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and volumes.
App Platform is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that lets you publish code directly to DigitalOcean servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure, runtimes, or dependencies.
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Latest Updates
7 August 2025
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App Platform edge controls are now in general availability, introducing three key features for enhanced control over your app’s CDN behavior and security posture: email obfuscation, enhanced threat control to mitigate layer 7 DDoS attacks from sophisticated threat actors, and CDN cache controls.
For complete configuration details, see How to Configure Edge Settings in App Platform.
28 July 2025
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DOKS node pools with AMD GPU worker nodes now have the following observability features:
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You can monitor basic metrics, such as GPU VRAM usage.
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We automatically deploy the ROCm Device Plugin for Kubernetes, which enables features such as GPU discovery and health checks.
When creating or updating a cluster with the API, you can install the AMD Device Metrics Exporter plugin with the
amd_gpu_device_metrics_exporter_plugin
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23 July 2025
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bullseye-backports
for Debian 11 reached end of life on 10 June 2024. Because our Debian 11 image depends on this package, we have deprecated this image.Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.
To fix package manager issues on existing Debian 11 Droplets, edit the APT sources list to change the repository URL for
bullseye-backports
fromdeb.debian.org
to the distribution archive,archive.debian.org
. For example, you can runsudo sed -i '/bullseye-backports/s/deb.debian.org/archive.debian.org/' /etc/apt/sources.list
.
For more information, see the full release notes.