Feedbacks about DigitalOcean in the Qovery context

1. Compass: DigitalOcean’s Customer Advisory Group - 2021/10
Pierre Mavro - CTO @ Qovery

2. What Qovery does?
Qovery is a platform that
combines the power of
Kubernetes, the reliability of
Cloud providers, and the
simplicity of Heroku to deploy
your applications in the Cloud.

3. Why DO and DOKS?
Why DigitalOcean
● Requested by our clients
● Great and clear documentation
● Support is fast and really helpful
● Competitive pricing
Why DOKS
● Easy and fast to setup
● Autoscaler integrated
● Lot of tech blog post on how to integrate
k8s third party tools (nginx ingress…)

4. How do we use DOKS

5. Challenges and lessons learned
● Compared to bigger competitors, DOKS is faster to deploy and easier to upgrade
● For K8s newbies, DigitalOcean offers “1 click apps”
● Open to contribution and partnership:
○ We wanted to add have auto health mode for dead kubelet, so we open sourced Digital
Mobius and DO added it to blueprints
https://github.com/digitalocean/container-blueprints/tree/main/DOKS-automatic-node-re
pair
○ Lib Rust is not up to date, we’re going to provide to DO an auto-generated one from DO
OpenAPI (coming soon)
● Kubernetes upgrades and compatibility between versions has to be regularly made (please
support more versions)
● Fully automated Kubernetes minor upgrades

6. Thank you!