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Why Every Development Environment Eventually Falls Short. And Why That’s Okay.

Even the best development environments hit a wall at some point. What you do next is the important part...

May 14, 2025
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Why Flexibility Is Key to Scaling Development Environments

Learn how to evolve your environment strategy as your team and architecture grow....

April 22, 2025
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Shared Environments Could Be Costing Your Company Millions

Testing code shouldn’t feel like booking a conference room. And yet, in many engineering teams, that’s exactly what it’s like. Modern software development...

April 15, 2025
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The Ultimate Platform Stack: GitLab CI/CD + Okteto Development Environments

In every software organization, platform teams sit at the intersection of innovation and scale. Your mission is to enable engineers to move faster without...

April 11, 2025
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Okteto Development Environments Named High Performer By G2

We’re thrilled to share that Okteto has earned 7 badges in G2’s Spring 2025 Reports, highlighting our leadership across DevOps and Container Orchestration...

March 25, 2025
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What Are Ephemeral Environments and Why Do Platform Teams Need Them?

In this post, learn everything you need to know about ephemeral environments from what they are, how they work and their benefits. ...

March 10, 2025
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Platform Tooling Landscape | 21 Best Platform Engineering Tools in 2025

Today, having the right platform engineering tools in place isn’t just a “nice-to-have”—it’s a necessity. But navigating the platform tooling landscape is just the first step....

January 07, 2025
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Transforming Developer Productivity For Our Customers

At Okteto, our core focus this past year was on building features that directly solve critical challenges faced by platform engineering teams....

December 23, 2024
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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...

September 10, 2024
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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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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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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...

December 14, 2023
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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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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...

November 17, 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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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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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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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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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 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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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...

July 24, 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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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...

June 02, 2023
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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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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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