DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service — a fully managed Kubernetes cluster offering. DOKS handles control plane management, upgrades, and HA automatically, so teams focus on deploying workloads rather than managing Kubernetes infrastructure. The control plane is free; customers pay only for worker Droplets.
An e-commerce platform migrates from a single Droplet to DOKS to handle variable holiday traffic. They deploy their services as Kubernetes pods and configure Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to scale from 2 to 20 pods during peak events, with DOKS automatically provisioning new worker nodes.