diff --git a/ci-automation/ci-config.env b/ci-automation/ci-config.env
index fe821f22b7..3fa6d63290 100644
--- a/ci-automation/ci-config.env
+++ b/ci-automation/ci-config.env
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ GCE_PARALLEL="${PARALLEL_TESTS:-4}"
 
 # Use the "@PROTO@" "@ARCH@", "@CHANNEL@" and "@VERNUM@" placeholders. They will
 # be replaced.
-DO_IMAGE_URL="${DEFAULT_HTTP_IMAGE_URL_TEMPLATE}/flatcar_production_digitalocean_image.bin.bz2"
-DO_REGION='sfo3'
-DO_MACHINE_SIZE='s-2vcpu-2gb'
-DO_PARALLEL='8'
+: ${DIGITALOCEAN_IMAGE_URL_TEMPLATE:="${DEFAULT_HTTP_IMAGE_URL_TEMPLATE}/flatcar_production_digitalocean_image.bin.bz2"}
+: ${DIGITALOCEAN_REGION:='sfo3'}
+: ${DIGITALOCEAN_MACHINE_SIZE:='s-2vcpu-2gb'}
+DIGITALOCEAN_PARALLEL="${PARALLEL_TESTS:-8}"
 # DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN_JSON env var is used for credentials, and should
 # come from sdk_container/.env
diff --git a/ci-automation/vendor-testing/digitalocean.sh b/ci-automation/vendor-testing/digitalocean.sh
index bbfa8ac344..a8d870bd14 100755
--- a/ci-automation/vendor-testing/digitalocean.sh
+++ b/ci-automation/vendor-testing/digitalocean.sh
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ if [[ "${CIA_ARCH}" == "arm64" ]]; then
 fi
 
 image_name="ci-${CIA_VERNUM//+/-}"
-image_url="$(url_from_template "${DO_IMAGE_URL}" "${CIA_ARCH}" "${CIA_CHANNEL}" 'https' "${CIA_VERNUM}")"
+image_url="$(url_from_template "${DIGITALOCEAN_IMAGE_URL_TEMPLATE}" "${CIA_ARCH}" "${CIA_CHANNEL}" 'https' "${CIA_VERNUM}")"
 
 config_file="$(secret_to_file "${DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN_JSON}")"
 
 ore do create-image \
     --config-file="${config_file}" \
-    --region="${DO_REGION}" \
+    --region="${DIGITALOCEAN_REGION}" \
     --name="${image_name}" \
     --url="${image_url}"
 
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ set -x
 
 timeout --signal=SIGQUIT 4h\
     kola run \
-    --do-size="${DO_MACHINE_SIZE}" \
-    --do-region="${DO_REGION}" \
+    --do-size="${DIGITALOCEAN_MACHINE_SIZE}" \
+    --do-region="${DIGITALOCEAN_REGION}" \
     --basename="${image_name}" \
     --do-config-file="${config_file}" \
     --do-image="${image_name}" \
-    --parallel="${DO_PARALLEL}" \
+    --parallel="${DIGITALOCEAN_PARALLEL}" \
     --platform=do \
     --channel="${CIA_CHANNEL}" \
     --tapfile="${CIA_TAPFILE}" \