Last week I co-hosted an episode of The Binding Status with Crossplane’s maintainer Daniel Mangum. It was a blast! We talked about our open source project, Crossplane, and how you can use both to develop Cloud Native applications that span Kubernetes deployments and Cloud Services.

Watch the recording here 📺:

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Our main goal at Okteto is to build software experiences that developers love and help them be much more productive. A crucial part of providing a great developer experience is to deliver robust functionality that is stable, speedy, and visually intuitive.

Most Kubernetes UIs today are built from the perspective of the cluster operator. They are focused on managing clusters and displaying a raw list of Kubernetes objects. This is very useful when trying to understand the state or capacity of a cluster, but very complex from the perspective of a developer who is not familiar with infrastructure management.

The Okteto Cloud UI aims to provide a visual interface to easily manage Kubernetes namespaces and applications for developers. Our intention is to create a powerful visual abstraction that simplifies the insane complexity of a growing Kubernetes cluster and lets them focus on one thing: develop their application.

We are happy to announce the latest iteration of our Developer-first UI. We hope that you’ll like it as much as we do!

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Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production workloads and the community around it is just great!

But developing in Kubernetes presents some challenges. The typical development workflow looks like this: write code, build a Docker image, push it to the registry, redeploy, validate your changes and repeat. This workflow is slow, and as anti-python as it could be. Python is famous for it’s quick Read-Eval-Print loop, after all. We don’t want to give that away when bulding Cloud Native applications.

Okteto was created to solve this problem. On this blog post, we will show you how Okteto improves the developer experience in Kubernetes for Python developers. You will be able to take full advantage of using an instant development environment, dependency caching, hot-reloading and even the PyCharm debugger while developing your application directly in Kubernetes.

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OpenFaaS is an open source project that makes it simple to deploy functions to Kubernetes written on any language. Many well known companies use it to power their operations, and they have a thriving community backing it.

And we are happy to announce that you can now deploy your very own instance of OpenFaaS with one click directly from Okteto Cloud’s application catalog 👯‍♀!

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If you build software, the words it works on my machine have slipped out of your mouth at least once in your life. If you Google it you’ll probably find memes, stickers, and t-shirts joking about it. Developers have been haunted for decades by unexpected errors when running code on different machines. In the era of containers, you might think this is no longer an issue, but there are still drawbacks and challenges that need to be solved.

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Microservice-based applications make our applications more scalable. But they also make it harder to setup local development environments. You need to run several services that you are not familiar with, with a variety of different runtimes. And you probably need to switch your development environment between different projects. Not to mention that running all these services can eat up all of your computer’s available resources.

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to develop a Hello World application, how to kubernetize it and how to deploy it into Okteto Cloud without having to install anything locally. We will use Grails as our programming language, but the guide applies to any Spring Boot application. And yes, you won’t need to install grails, the JVM, Docker or Kubernetes locally 😍.

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If you are building a cloud-based application at scale, running it in Kubernetes is a no-brainer: It’s been adopted by the industry at an incredible rate, it has a wonderful community, and every single cloud vendor offers it as a service.

But the development experience available when building Kubernetes applications is less than ideal: write your code, build a Docker image, push it to the registry, redeploy, validate your changes and repeat. This flow is not only slow and full of friction but it prevents us from benefiting from PHP’s rich toolkit ecosystem. Think about this for a second. When was the last time that you debug with an actual debugger, instead of adding echos everywhere in your code?

Okteto was created to solve this problem. On this blog post, we will show you how Okteto improves the developer experience in Kubernetes for PHP developers. You will be able to take full advantage of the entire PHP toolkit (debuggers, dependency managers, test frameworks, etc…) while developing your application directly in your cluster.

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Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production workloads and the community around it is just great!

But developing in Kubernetes presents some challenges. The typical development workflow looks like this: write code, build a Docker image, push it to the registry, redeploy, validate your changes and repeat. This flow is not only slow, but it also prevents us from benefiting from standard features of the Node ecosystem such as hot reload your app as fast as you type your code or debuggers.

Okteto was created to solve this problem. On this blog post, we will show you how Okteto improves the developer experience in Kubernetes for Node developers. You will be able to take full advantage of tools like nodemon, dependency caching or IDE debuggers while developing your application directly in Kubernetes.

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