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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,...
Arsh Sharma
Designing Development Velocity: A Platform Builder's Playbook
Before automating environments for the ultimate modern development experience, platform providers (builders) need a vision and game plan. This guide aims...
David Butler
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Ashlynn Pericacho
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....
Arsh Sharma
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...
Matt Gonzales 
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
David Butler
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...
Arsh Sharma
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,...
Matt Gonzales 
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...
John Papageorge
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,...
John Papageorge
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...
John Papageorge
5 Technical Challenges of Building Software for Modern Cloud Development
While developing a purpose-built in-house development environment may appear like an obvious way to address specific development challenges, the introduction...
John Papageorge
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...
Arsh Sharma
Guide to the Kubernetes Load Balancer Service
A pod is Kubernetes’ smallest and simplest unit representing a single instance of a running process in a Kubernetes cluster. Pods contain one or more containers....
Joseph Chege
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...
Arsh Sharma
Ready to run…Use the Okteto Catalog
Are you ready to run your application? Go to the Okteto Catalog, select your application from the list, and just click "Launch". Okteto takes care of...
David Butler
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...
Arsh Sharma
The Build vs. Buy Software Guide to Development Platforms
Top Ten List of Considerations When Debating to Build or Buy a Dev Platform To build or not to build? Ah, that is the Shakespearean question when it comes...
John Papageorge