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Has anyone got a working example, or see what I'm doing incorrectly?

You're passing a kubernetes provider (`provider`) as the provider to your `digitalocean.KubernetesNodePool`. This may be causing the panic - though it shouldn't be panicking, it should give you an error message.

So you can remove that part from the node pool arguments. Also, you don't need the explicit `dependsOn`, because you've already specified the dependency to `clusterId: cluster.id`. It won't cause a problem, it's just superfluous.

This code works for me:
```import * as digitalocean from "@pulumi/digitalocean";

const projectName = "demo"
const cluster = new digitalocean.KubernetesCluster(`${projectName}`, {
    region: digitalocean.Regions.NYC1,
    version: "1.16.2-do.1",
    nodePool: {
        name: `${projectName}-default`,
        size: digitalocean.DropletSlugs.DropletS2VCPU4GB,
        autoScale: true,
        minNodes: 1,
        maxNodes: 2
    },
});
export const clusterName = cluster.name;

const nodePool = new digitalocean.KubernetesNodePool(`${projectName}`, {
    clusterId: cluster.id,
    size: digitalocean.DropletSlugs.DropletS2VCPU4GB,
    nodeCount: 1,
});
export const nodePoolName = nodePool.name;```

I tried to reproduce the panic with the k8s provider and I get an error but not a panic. Could you make sure you're on the latest DigitalOcean provider in your package.json?

Apologies I never got back to you, this worked. Thank you!