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title: "Elevate your team's your experiences from coding to release"
description: "Okteto is a platform for building, running, and managing cloud development experiences from developers to testers to release engineers."
url: "https://www.okteto.com/automate-dev-on-k8s/"
source: "https://www.okteto.com"
---

# Automate Development Experiences

Increase your team's velocity from development to deployment

[Take a tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/platform-console)

## Platform and DevX Engineers

Okteto is a platform for defining, deploying, and managing development environment automation from developers to testers to release engineers.

-   Configure and standardize production-like environments on Kubernetes
-   Provision self-service DevX to quickly spin-up apps and microservices without any developer admin
-   Unify development and production environments for higher quality deployment of apps on Kubernetes
-   Unify, standardize, and govern modern development environments and experience

[Take a tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/manage-devx)

![Setting up a catalog item in the Okteto admin dashboard](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/62babc568356a9b209cec8aa5acfabb2054fc5d6-944x860.png?w=944&h=860&q=75&fit=max&auto=format)

## Modern App Developers

The Okteto cloud-native user experience creates and manages secure and isolated Kubernetes namespaces for you and your team.

-   Developers work in **Namespaces** just like you’d expect if you're going to deploy with Kubernetes.
-   Develop with your favorite **IDE** and run your application in Kubernetes just like in production
-   Make code changes and Okteto will **sync** changes in running Kubernetes cluster environments
-   **Share** namespaces and development environments making team development simple

[Take a tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/hot-reloading)

## Extended Product Team

Extended product teams including developers, testers, and key members from products, marketing, and sales can share in the experience and development feedback.

-   No one is waiting for an environment and can quickly participate in providing rapid application feedback
-   Quickly integrate with your devops platform and run Preview Environments on every pull request
-   Deliver Preview Environments and a Catalog of ready-to-use app-configured environments to internal and external users

[Take a tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/preview-environments)

## Test and Release Engineers

Test and Release Engineers merge, QA, and release with enhanced visibility, trust, and control.

-   Work with realistic environments, including data, security, and production like app infrastructure
-   Increase the feedback loop to developers and the operations teams
-   Faster and more production-like cycles for SRE quality, security and performance verification

[Take a tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/catalog)

## Keep exploring...

Learn more about how a development experience platform can elevate your team's productivity.

### Case Story

Learn how platform teams benefit from development experiences

[Case Story](https://www.okteto.com/customers/)

### Demo

Get a demo of the experience platform for your own infrastructure

[Book a demo](https://www.okteto.com/get-demo/)

### Try It

We offer SaaS and self-hosted solutions to try at your own pace

[Get started](https://okteto.com/try-free)