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Announcing Okteto CLI 3.0
We are happy to announce the release of Okteto CLI 3.0! This release marks a significant milestone, bringing together the most impactful features we’ve...
Enhance CI Pipelines with Dagger and Okteto Preview Environments for a Better Developer Experience
Continuous Integration (CI) is a cornerstone of modern software development, ensuring that code changes are automatically tested and merged, reducing the...
Introducing Okteto Insights: Essential Metrics For Platform Teams
Platform Teams can’t succeed in improving the DevX unless they have clear metrics that help them understand the outcome of their initiatives. To help platform...
Benefits of Platform Engineering
In a world where technology advances at lightning speed, it is imperative for organizations to equip themselves with the best practices in the software...
Platform Engineering Roadmap: Best Practices You Need To Know
In our previous blog post, we explored how cultivating a customer-centric mindset can help you become a better platform engineer. Now, let's delve into...
Platform Engineering Versus Devops
Platform engineering has become an increasingly popular topic in the software development industry. But a lot of people are still confused on what's the...
Empowering Teams: The Shift in Okteto's Development Focus
In the early stages of innovation, Okteto introduced a free SaaS tier, Okteto Cloud, to provide individual developers with a platform for remote development...
Automating Development Environments and Infrastructure with Terraform and Okteto
If you're developing a modern cloud-native app, it's very likely that your app is leveraging some cloud resources. These could be things like storage buckets,...
Improving Development Velocity by Building a Better DevX
Before automating environments for the ultimate modern development experience, platform providers (builders) need a vision and game plan. This guide...
How To Speed Up Container Image Builds
Okteto comes with a build service that enables developers to offload image building steps to the cloud. This eliminates the need for Docker to be running...
Simplifying Launching Development Environments With Okteto Catalog
Platform engineering is all about creating "golden paths" for developers. These golden paths are streamlined processes that allow developers to focus on...
Automate Provisioning Any Dev Resource on Any Cloud Provider With Pulumi and Okteto
The Value It is common in today's landscape to build microservices-based applications that leverage resources like RDS databases, storage buckets, etc...
How Developers Can Seamlessly Collaborate When Building Microservice Apps
Building microservices based applications is inherently challenging. Given the multitude of components involved, it is unrealistic to expect any individual...
Slash Your Kubernetes Costs During Development
Using Kubernetes can be quite costly, to be frank. Regardless of the cloud provider you choose for your cluster, there are expenses associated with the...
Making Your Helm-Packaged Applications Ready for Cloud Native Development with Okteto
Helm, often referred to as the "package manager for Kubernetes," is a powerful tool that streamlines the installation and management of cloud native applications...
Five Challenges with Developing Locally Using Docker Compose
After the popularization of containers, a lot of the development workflow started leaning on Docker Compose. Developers would have a Docker Compose file...
The Way You're Using Kubernetes Clusters During Development Is Killing Productivity!
Transitioning from development to production is always challenging. There's that underlying fear of overlooking something crucial, such as misconfigurations...
Okteto Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance
We’re excited to announce that Okteto has successfully passed a third-party audit and received a SOC 2® Type I report. This achievement is more than just...
Using ArgoCD With Okteto for a Unified Kubernetes Development Experience
ArgoCD is a powerful tool for continuous deployment that leverages Git repositories as the ultimate source of truth for managing Kubernetes deployments....
Okteto 1.8 Chart Release, CLI 2.16 and Support for Kubernetes 1.25
We're excited to bring you another product update with several great new features and improvements to the Okteto experience. May highlights Okteto 1.8...
The Modern Way of Sharing Dev Work With Your Team
Collaboration is essential in modern application development. To iterate quickly, an efficient way to show and receive feedback on changes from everyone...
Developing Cloud-Native Apps With MongoDB Atlas and Kubernetes
What Is MongoDB Atlas MongoDB Atlas is a cloud database service that allows teams to deploy and manage MongoDB databases with ease. Its streamlined experience...
Bring Any Cloud Resource to Your Modern App Dev Workflow
How Modern Applications Use Cloud Resources It is very common for the cloud-native microservices we code these days to utilize resources deployed on different...
Using LaunchDarkly and Okteto To Automate Modern Feature Flag Management
What Are Feature Flags Feature flags allow developers to enable or disable features in an application without deploying a new version. This enables teams...
Okteto Extends Developer Experience to All Resources
Platform Builders Can Automate Lifecycle Control for Every Environment San Francisco, CA - April 18, 2023 - Okteto, the leader in modern development experience...
How Platform Teams Can Deliver a Great Development Experience for Modern App Developers
Modern applications have a microservices-based architecture, are containerized, and run on Kubernetes clusters in production. However, most of these applications...
Okteto Chart 1.6, 1.7 & CLI 2.14 released with Kubernetes 1.24 support
We're excited about March's product update because it contains many improvements to the Okteto product experience. We've updated our CLI to version 2.14,...
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Building Versus Buying Software for Development
5 Maintenance Requirements of In-house Software Development Building an in-house development platform can provide several benefits, such as customizability,...
Four Opportunity Costs of Building vs. Buying Software for Development
At first glance, creating an internal cloud development experience platform may appear to be a sage business choice. Hey, a custom solution allows teams...
5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience
5 Reasons to Prioritize a Positive Developer Experience Is building and maintaining an internal development platform negatively impacting developer happiness...