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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...

July 10, 2024
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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...

May 28, 2024
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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...

February 28, 2024
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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...

January 25, 2024
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The image contains the text "Platform Engineering: The Customer-Centric Approach" in bold, white, and blue letters. The background is a dark, textured pattern, and similar to the previous image, it includes stylized 3D graphics depicting technology-related objects like servers, data centers, and other tech infrastructure elements. The focus of the image suggests an emphasis on platform engineering with a particular approach centered around customer needs and experiences.The image contains the text "Platform Engineering: The Customer-Centric Approach" in bold, white, and blue letters. The background is a dark, textured pattern, and similar to the previous image, it includes stylized 3D graphics depicting technology-related objects like servers, data centers, and other tech infrastructure elements. The focus of the image suggests an emphasis on platform engineering with a particular approach centered around customer needs and experiences.

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...

January 16, 2024
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The image features the text "DevX Automation: Terraform and Okteto" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a dotted pattern on the right side. Next to the text are logos representing Terraform (a cube-like symbol) and Okteto (a circular logo with a stylized "C"). The design emphasizes automation in developer experience (DevX), highlighting the integration of Terraform and Okteto as tools within this context.The image features the text "DevX Automation: Terraform and Okteto" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a dotted pattern on the right side. Next to the text are logos representing Terraform (a cube-like symbol) and Okteto (a circular logo with a stylized "C"). The design emphasizes automation in developer experience (DevX), highlighting the integration of Terraform and Okteto as tools within this context.

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,...

November 26, 2023
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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...

November 08, 2023
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The image features the text "Development Experience: Creating an Environment Catalog" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a subtle textured pattern. On the right side of the image is a circular logo associated with Okteto, a teal circle with a stylized "C" inside. The overall theme of the image focuses on enhancing the development experience by creating an environment catalog, likely to streamline or organize development environments within a platform.The image features the text "Development Experience: Creating an Environment Catalog" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a subtle textured pattern. On the right side of the image is a circular logo associated with Okteto, a teal circle with a stylized "C" inside. The overall theme of the image focuses on enhancing the development experience by creating an environment catalog, likely to streamline or organize development environments within a platform.

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...

October 24, 2023
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The image features the text "DevX Automation: Pulumi and Okteto" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a dotted pattern on the right side. Below the main text are the logos of Pulumi (a colorful cube with interconnected dots) and Okteto (a teal circle with a stylized "C"). The design emphasizes automation in developer experience (DevX), particularly highlighting the use of Pulumi and Okteto as tools within this context.The image features the text "DevX Automation: Pulumi and Okteto" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a dotted pattern on the right side. Below the main text are the logos of Pulumi (a colorful cube with interconnected dots) and Okteto (a teal circle with a stylized "C"). The design emphasizes automation in developer experience (DevX), particularly highlighting the use of Pulumi and Okteto as tools within this context.

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...

October 19, 2023
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The image features the text "Collaboration: Challenges Building Modern Apps" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a subtle dotted pattern on the right side. To the right of the text is an illustration of three people working together to build or design a large interface, symbolizing teamwork in the development of modern applications. The overall theme emphasizes the importance and challenges of collaboration in the process of building contemporary software applications.The image features the text "Collaboration: Challenges Building Modern Apps" in bold white and blue letters. The background is dark with a subtle dotted pattern on the right side. To the right of the text is an illustration of three people working together to build or design a large interface, symbolizing teamwork in the development of modern applications. The overall theme emphasizes the importance and challenges of collaboration in the process of building contemporary software applications.

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...

October 10, 2023
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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...

September 26, 2023
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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...

September 01, 2023
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The image features the text "Five Challenges with Developing Locally Using Docker Compose" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, consisting of a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is placed at the bottom right. The design highlights the difficulties developers may face when working locally with Docker Compose, suggesting that Okteto may provide solutions or insights related to these challenges.The image features the text "Five Challenges with Developing Locally Using Docker Compose" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, consisting of a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is placed at the bottom right. The design highlights the difficulties developers may face when working locally with Docker Compose, suggesting that Okteto may provide solutions or insights related to these challenges.

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...

August 15, 2023
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The image features the text "The Way You're Using Kubernetes Clusters During Development Is Killing Productivity!" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests that current practices in using Kubernetes clusters during development might be inefficient or counterproductive, with Okteto possibly offering a solution to enhance productivity.The image features the text "The Way You're Using Kubernetes Clusters During Development Is Killing Productivity!" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests that current practices in using Kubernetes clusters during development might be inefficient or counterproductive, with Okteto possibly offering a solution to enhance productivity.

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...

July 27, 2023
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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....

July 13, 2023
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The image features the text "The Modern Way of Sharing Dev Work With Your Team" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests a focus on modern tools or methods, possibly offered by Okteto, to enhance collaboration and sharing of development work among team members.The image features the text "The Modern Way of Sharing Dev Work With Your Team" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design suggests a focus on modern tools or methods, possibly offered by Okteto, to enhance collaboration and sharing of development work among team members.

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...

June 02, 2023
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The image features the text "Developing Cloud-Native Apps With MongoDB Atlas and Kubernetes" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design emphasizes the integration of MongoDB Atlas, a cloud database service, with Kubernetes for developing cloud-native applications, highlighting a modern approach facilitated by Okteto.The image features the text "Developing Cloud-Native Apps With MongoDB Atlas and Kubernetes" in bold white letters on a dark blue background with a hexagonal pattern. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C" and the text "Okteto," is positioned at the bottom right. The design emphasizes the integration of MongoDB Atlas, a cloud database service, with Kubernetes for developing cloud-native applications, highlighting a modern approach facilitated by Okteto.

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...

May 17, 2023
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The image features the text "External Resources: Bring Any Dependency to Your Environments" in bold white and blue letters on a dark, textured background. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is displayed on the right side. The design highlights the concept of integrating external resources or dependencies into development environments, emphasizing flexibility and accessibility in managing these resources with the help of Okteto.The image features the text "External Resources: Bring Any Dependency to Your Environments" in bold white and blue letters on a dark, textured background. The Okteto logo, a teal circle with a stylized "C," is displayed on the right side. The design highlights the concept of integrating external resources or dependencies into development environments, emphasizing flexibility and accessibility in managing these resources with the help of Okteto.

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...

May 10, 2023
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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...

May 02, 2023
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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...

April 18, 2023
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Myths Around Preview Environments

Preview environments are rapidly becoming a crucial part of the development experience when building cloud native applications. They provide everyone in...

March 14, 2023
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Four Reasons You Need Preview Environments

There has been a rapid increase in the adoption of Preview Environments across organizations. From open-source projects to enterprise organizations, everyone...

February 21, 2023
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Cloud Native Development Made Easy With Sprkl and Okteto

Our applications are getting increasingly complex with time. This is causing a lot of problems for developers, from having to spend hours configuring their...

February 07, 2023
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Why Your Team’s Developer Experience Matters

Happy developers write better code. Over the last decade, the era of cloud and mobile applications brought about tools like Docker, platforms like Kubernetes,...

January 24, 2023
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Practice Secrets Management in Kubernetes With OWASP WrongSecrets and Okteto

Shipping secure applications is essential for any organization! Security should be a priority, as the consequences of a breach are often dire and tough...

December 22, 2022
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Containerization and Kubernetes: A Guide

What is containerization and Kubernetes? Containers quickly became the norm for how we built and packaged our applications. Containerization of applications...

December 14, 2022
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Kubectl Cheat Sheet Commands & Examples

Things can be overwhelming when you are new to Kubernetes. You’d think that understanding all the different objects Kubernetes has to offer would be the...

December 05, 2022
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Kubernetes Network Policy: A Beginner’s Guide

Everyone agrees that Kubernetes clusters are not secure by default. But the good thing is that Kubernetes gives you the tools to make it so. In this...

November 28, 2022
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Applying GitOps Principles to Your Development Environments

GitOps refers to the practice of using Git repositories as the single source of truth for provisioning and managing your infrastructure. Everyone in the...

October 18, 2022
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Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes Deployments

Over the last five years, Kubernetes has seen rapid adoption as a container orchestrator. And for a good reason too. Containers solved the problem of being...

September 06, 2022
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What Is the Kubernetes Release Team and Why You Should Consider Applying

Kubernetes 1.25 just got released. I consider myself very lucky to be able to help with the release as the CI Signal Lead and get to work with the amazing...

August 25, 2022
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Developing Microservices by Hot Reloading on Kubernetes Clusters

Let me jog your memory with how we used to develop applications not so long ago. We would bring up the application, write some code, hit save, see our...

August 11, 2022
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Kubernetes Basics: Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners

Are you tired of listening to everyone in DevOps talk about "Kubernetes" while you're still struggling with how to pronounce it? Unless you started programming...

July 27, 2022
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Launching the Docker Desktop Extension for Okteto!

Docker launched in 2013 and since then has revolutionized the way we build and ship code. Docker made containers a part of the modern application development...

May 09, 2022
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Making Your CLI More Accessible Using Fig

No matter how many times I use kubectl or docker in a day, I just can't seem to remember the exact subcommands and what they do. I often find myself using...

March 23, 2022
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Maybe It's Time To Rethink How You've Been Developing?

Cloud-Native Applications Need Cloud-Native Development Environments We've seen a tremendous change in the way applications get deployed over the last...

March 09, 2022
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