Top updates from 2026
October 2026
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
6 October 2026 (managed-agents, agent-harness-runtime)
DigitalOcean’s Harness Runtime now supports deploying CrewAI agents, enabling users to package CrewAI repositories, define inputs, connect models and tools via Action Gateway, and run crews in isolate…
- ideas.digitalocean.com
Introducing Agent Droplets
DigitalOcean introduced Agent Droplets, a new compute offering that consolidates compute, inference, storage, and tools for AI agents into a single plan. Pro and Team plans receive 15% and 20% discoun…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
doctl serverless-inference
DigitalOcean introduced the 'doctl serverless-inference' CLI tool in version 1.177.0, enabling direct calls to its serverless inference API at inference.do-ai.run. Users can authenticate with model ac…
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Introducing Agent Droplets: everything an agent needs, one price, one bill
DigitalOcean introduced Agent Droplets, a bundled pricing model for its Managed Agents service, consolidating compute, inference, storage, and tool access into a single monthly plan. This simplifies b…
- Integrationideas.digitalocean.com
Now Available: GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI
DigitalOcean now offers OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol model through its Serverless Inference platform, providing near-GPT-6 Astra performance for coding, computer use, and document tasks at lower per-token cos…
- Featuredigitalocean.com
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: the compute foundation for building your AI agent infrastructure (private preview)
DigitalOcean introduced MicroVMs, isolated virtual machines that pause when idle and resume with state intact, designed for AI agent workloads and other bursty, isolated compute needs. Powering their …
- Pricingdocs.digitalocean.com
1 October 2026 (billing, inference, managed-agents)
DigitalOcean launched a dedicated Inference and Agents balance for prepaid Serverless Inference and Managed Agents, separate from other product balances. Users can add $5–$500 or enable auto-reload vi…
September 2026
- ideas.digitalocean.com
Now Generally Available: Isolated Worker Nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes
DigitalOcean launched generally available Isolated Worker Nodes for its DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) service, eliminating public IPv4 addresses on worker nodes. Traffic is routed through a NAT Gatew…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
How to Manage Resource Limits for Organization Teams
DigitalOcean introduced a new feature allowing organization owners and admins to view, adjust, and request increases for team resource limits directly from the organization dashboard. The feature incl…
- Pricingdocs.digitalocean.com
PostgreSQL and MySQL Plan Changes Beginning 15 October 2026
DigitalOcean will restructure its PostgreSQL and MySQL database plans on 15 October 2026, consolidating larger, high-availability, and read-only options into the Advanced Edition. Standard Edition wil…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
30 September 2026 (postgresql)
DigitalOcean's PostgreSQL Advanced Edition no longer allows installing custom extensions via CREATE EXTENSION, though pre-installed extensions like pg_repack, pg_stat_statements, pgaudit, plpgsql, and…
- docs.digitalocean.com
30 September 2026 (inference)
DigitalOcean now supports OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model on its Inference platform, enabling serverless inference and Agent Development Kit use cases. The model is available immediately for customers leve…
- Pricingdocs.digitalocean.com
30 September 2026 (postgresql, mysql, upcoming)
DigitalOcean will restrict PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition plans to a maximum of 4 GiB RAM starting 15 October 2026 for new accounts and 30 November 2026 for existing accounts. Plans exceeding t…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
30 September 2026 (organizations)
DigitalOcean introduced a new Resource limits tab in the organization dashboard, allowing owners and admins to view and adjust per-resource usage and limits for each team. This change centralizes reso…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
30 September 2026 (accounts)
DigitalOcean introduced a new Session duration setting allowing users to configure how long their account sessions remain active, ranging from 1 hour to 30 days. The setting is accessible via the My A…
- Launchdocs.digitalocean.com
29 September 2026 (kubernetes)
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now offers isolated worker nodes in general availability, removing all worker nodes from the public internet by default. This enhances security by ensuring nodes are not…
- ideas.digitalocean.com
Now Available: Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic
DigitalOcean now offers Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 via its Serverless Inference platform at the same per-token pricing as Sonnet 5. The upgrade improves coding, writing, and document generation cap…
- Featuredigitalocean.com
How DigitalOcean Manages Credentials for Autonomous Agents
DigitalOcean introduced a credential management system for its Managed Agents platform that prevents autonomous agents from ever holding raw secrets. Credentials are brokered at execution time via the…
- Featuredocs.digitalocean.com
28 September 2026 (valkey)
DigitalOcean now defaults to Valkey 9 for new database clusters, while Valkey 8 remains available for both new and existing clusters. The change applies to managed Valkey services without disrupting e…
- docs.digitalocean.com
28 September 2026 (inference)
DigitalOcean now supports Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 model in its Inference service, enabling serverless inference and Agent Development Kit use cases. The model is available immediately for custom…
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