diff --git a/.digital-ocean-deploy.yml b/.digital-ocean-deploy.yml
index 3e3cc761babce9e48be295a84ad9ded3f9855843..dda18ee1152d97eacea83814b3f227c35074fc72 100644
--- a/.digital-ocean-deploy.yml
+++ b/.digital-ocean-deploy.yml
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
     - cd k8s/$APP/overlays/$OVERLAY/
     - kustomize edit set image $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE=$NEW_IMAGE
     - kustomize build . | kubectl --insecure-skip-tls-verify --kubeconfig="/dev/null" --server=$KUBERNETES_SERVER --token=$KUBERNETES_TOKEN  apply -f -
+  retry:
+    max: 2
+    when: runner_system_failure