--- title: "Okteto External Resources" description: "Empower developers to innovate and deliver cloud-native applications faster than ever." url: "https://www.okteto.com/external-resources/" source: "https://www.okteto.com" --- # External Resources [Take the product tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/external-resources/) ## All of your application dependencies in one place With External Resources, developers have all the information they need to understand the application architecture directly in their environments. [Feature tour](https://www.okteto.com/tour/external-resources/) ## The best way to automate development infrastructure creation - Standardize infra creation and free developers from wasted setup time - Define once and provision as many times as needed - Avoid manual one-off provisioning of dev resources - See all application dependencies and their status for each environment ## Ready-to-use Okteto built samples Okteto supports automating the provisioning and de-provisioning of External Resources like databases, message brokers, serverless functions, security infrastructure, reporting dashboards, etc. [![AWS](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/5bab72fb0e1308d714c0911fcc7eb4131cc51532-76x44.svg)AWS](https://github.com/okteto/external-resources-aws) [![LaunchDarkly](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/bf60296dc7f832fb712bc5555fa19ff82ad84f04-73x73.svg)LaunchDarkly](https://github.com/okteto/external-resources-launchdarkly) [![MongoDB](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/401adcdfab391dd663b77d158b975d583b5a75ef-37x80.svg)MongoDB](https://github.com/okteto/voting-app-with-external-resources) [![GCP](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/845c83168f168c8dab84b8a57ecf94cef5281290-72x58.svg)GCP](https://github.com/okteto/external-resources-gcp) ## Platform teams deploy and manage any resource #### Now you can automate the development environment setup with seamless provisioning of any cloud resource your application needs. ## View dependencies in your namespace #### Give developers access to self-service provisioning of environments with all the application dependencies pre-configured for them. ## Standardize with a Manifest #### Define once and provision as many times as needed! Automate and standardize the deployment and destruction of environments with External Resources. ## We'd love to show you more #### If your development teams need access to third-party resources in their environments, please reach out! #### Let us know how to get in touch and we'll follow up to schedule a live demo and talk more about your use case. ## Keep exploring... ### DevX Guide 6 principles for designing a modern development experience [Learn more](https://www.okteto.com/devx-principles/) ### Read the blog Learn more about how to bring any cloud resource to your development workflow [Blog](https://www.okteto.com/blog/bring-any-cloud-resource-to-your-modern-app-dev-workflow) ### Newsletter Monthly insights from Platform Builders who think about DevX all day... [Subscribe](https://www.okteto.com/devx-all-day)