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Reasons to Invest in a Platform Engineering Team

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 Best Practices

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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How You Can Become A Better Platform Engineer

Platform engineering has become an increasingly popular topic in the software development industry. But getting it right might just be harder than you...

January 16, 2024
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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,...

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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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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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 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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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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Container Orchestration and Kubernetes

Containers quickly became the norm for how we built and packaged our applications. They made the software delivery and development cycle easy by providing...

December 14, 2022
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Kubernetes Cheat Sheet: Must-Know Commands and 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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Beginner’s Guide to Network Policies in Kubernetes

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 article,...

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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Modern Development Environments for Cloud Native Applications Using Gitpod and Okteto

It’s no secret that happy developers write better code. But how do you enable a great developer experience in this age of cloud native applications? Well,...

July 28, 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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Okteto at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

Last week is something we here at Okteto will cherish for a long time! It was a huge milestone for us, as this was the first time we as a company were...

May 26, 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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Leveraging Okteto Pipelines for Your Preview Environments

Okteto's Preview Environments allow you to browse a deployed version of each pull request made to your repository. This can be very useful for getting...

February 03, 2022
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