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Why does the Digital Ocean K8s take long to provision the cluster ( 4 hrs and still in progress )

Posted on March 9, 2026

Hello everyone , this is my first time trying the DO kubernetes and i faced a long wait on provisioning is this norma or there is an issue present! I have attached the screenshot showing provisioning that has been running for the past 4 hours! Any kind of help or suggestion would be appreciated.

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K8S still provisioning


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Hi there,

It would probably be best to reach out to the DigitalOcean support team: https://do.co/support

They will be able to investigate this or you.

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