To your first question: yes. The load balancers are updated automatically as containers die and come up. To your second, you can deploy to vagrant pretty easilyhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.2/do.... cloud provider integration has been very community driven, I'm sure the core team would be more than happy to help integration with DO (if there isn't already a bug open and work on going, on mobile right now so can't confirm).