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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...
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
Developing Vue.js and Node.js Apps With Okteto
Kubernetes is a feature-rich tool to solve all kinds of problems of the cloud, but it has a steep learning curve, and applications set up in Kubernetes...
Mercy Bassey
Building a Dev Platform Is Easy - Maintaining it is Hard
To build or not to build? Ah, that is the question when it comes to software. Many development teams debate this dilemma. It's a tricky quandary when the...
John Papageorge
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,...
Arsh Sharma
5 Internal Software Development Platform Challenges
Some of the smartest engineering and DevOps managers sometimes make the mistake of treating a new software initiative as a single, well-defined one-off...
John Papageorge
The Cost and Complications of In-House Development Environments
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson. The importance of tools that boost a positive developer experience can't be overstated....
John Papageorge
Kubernetes vs. Docker: What’s the Difference
The containerization and container orchestration world has seen a lot of development in recent years. One of the most widely used container technology...
Anita Ihuman
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...
Arsh Sharma
What is Kubernetes Architecture? A Complete Guide
What is Kubernetes In DevOps, Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool. It is used to deploy and manage containerized applications in an automated...
Hemanta Sundaray
Containerization and Kubernetes: A Guide
What is containerization and Kubernetes? Containers quickly became the norm for how we built and packaged our applications. Containerization of applications...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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,...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
Why Development Experience Matters
In September, Ramiro and John traveled to Tel Aviv for a hosted event with Okteto customers and local engineering leaders. The evening included presentations...
Ashlynn Pericacho
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
Cloud-Based Kubernetes Dev Environments Simplify How Developers Use Kubernetes
Kubernetes has made deploying modern cloud-native applications relatively easy. For instance, Kubernetes enables organizations to provision containerized...
John Papageorge
How to Develop Django and Postgres Applications with Docker and Okteto CLI 2.0
Doesn’t it bother you that you cannot build your application and see how it looks and behaves in production when developing it? If it does, then you...
Muhammed Ali
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,...
Arsh Sharma
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...
Arsh Sharma
Discover How Kubernetes Development Environments Help Accelerate Developer Velocity and Drive Cloud Application Innovation
The big day has finally arrived for your enterprise development team. The cloud application you’ve been developing for over a year is finally ready to...
Ramiro Berrelleza
Our week in Alcochete
The Okteto team relocated to Alcochete, Portugal, last month for a week of socialization, exploration, and fun. This offsite is the first time the entire company is together in the exact geographical location, so it was a big deal for all of us. And it was a fantastic experience!...
Ramiro Berrelleza
A Fly Fisherman Returns From the Wild to Develop in the Cloud
Bradley has been in the coding game since 1997 when he started bravenet.com, which he ran until 2003. The site featured simple pre-Facebook tools, such as guest books, message boards, and classified ads. At the height of success, Bravenet.com was the second largest website in Canada and 50th largest website in the world....
John Papageorge