--- title: "Production-Like Environments for AI Coding Agents" description: "Okteto gives coding agents production-like environments to verify their work. Isolated, full-stack, on your infrastructure. Tested code, not guesses" url: "https://www.okteto.com/" source: "https://www.okteto.com" --- # High quality code requires realistic environments. Okteto is the environment platform for agentic development. Every agent task gets an isolated, production-like environment on your infrastructure to build, test, and verify against real services and data. [Get a demo](https://www.okteto.com/get-demo)[Start for Free](https://www.okteto.com/signup) The world’s leading companies ship faster with Okteto ## Works with the Agents you already use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, or your own internal agents: if it can run a command, it can use Okteto. Agents get a real environment through the same CLI and APIs your developers already use. No proprietary framework, no lock-in. And because everything runs on your infrastructure, your platform team keeps the governance, observability, and resource control a fleet of agents actually requires. [Talk to Us](https://www.okteto.com/contact) ## Most agents just guess. With Okteto, your Agents know. Give your Agents the right environment to prove their work. - ### Every task gets a real environment. When an agent picks up work, Okteto spins up a full-stack, isolated environment on your infrastructure in seconds. No mocks, no shared-state collisions, no waiting in a queue. - ### The agent runs and verifies. It builds, runs, and tests its changes against real services and data, proving the work before a human ever looks at it. - ### Your platform team stays in control. Resource limits, governance, and observability across the entire fleet, so a hundred agents don't become a hundred surprises. - ### Your agents only spin up what they need Okteto connects each environment to shared instances of everything else so you can run a fleet without the infrastructure bill to match. [Get a demo](https://www.okteto.com/get-demo) ## Where agentic development breaks down - 1 ### Agents testing against incomplete dependencies miss the bugs that matter Lightweight sandboxes work for isolated changes. They fall apart when the service graph  spans dozens of dependencies,  and the code only breaks when real services interact. - 2 ### The feedback cycle wasn't built for agent velocity Every change still goes through a pipeline designed for humans working at human pace. Agents don't slow down for it. The feedback loop does. - 3 ### Without a real environment to validate in, testing happens in production Agents route around unreliable or missing environments. One mistake reaches every user. - 4 ### Agents generate. Verification still falls on a developer The loop was supposed to be autonomous. Without a real environment to close it, a human is still in the middle. - 5 ### Every failed change gets paid for twice Once in tokens on the way out. Once in engineering time on the way back. ## A complete environment, ready to run. - ### Self-serve environments Provision environments directly from a preconfigured catalog. - ### Flexible isolation Shared, hybrid, or fully isolated environments. - ### Live preview environments Test changes instantly with live previews. - ### Built for the task Tailored environments for every task. ## Why teams choose Okteto Most agents stop at code generation. With Okteto, your agents deliver working, tested features. | Okteto | Other tools | | --- | --- | | Run in real environments with full app and infra context | Generate code without runtime context | | Build, test, and validate automatically | Require manual testing and integration | | Access your actual APIs and services | Work in isolation from your real environment | | Open tested PRs with live previews | Send your code to external services or require full local access | | Works on your infrastructure securely | No access to your APIs or services | - 3×: Faster feature delivery - 70%: More accurate agent output - 2-3hrs: Time saved per AI-generated feature The future of dev environments ### Why agents need runtime feedback [Read the post](https://www.okteto.com/blog/the-missing-infrastructure-layer-thats-breaking-agentic-development) ## What our customers say [Read our reviews on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/okteto/reviews) ### Great for shift-left testing and quickie demo environments Heath H. | Lead Automation Engineer Okteto provides a very comprehensive solution for managing our Docker containers used in pre-merge testing, with extensive environment visibility and management as well as user access controls. It provides a modern, smooth, easy-to-use interface. Beyond the tool is the fantastic, personalized support and engagement from the Okteto team. ### Preview Environments are a breeze with Okteto John C. | Cofounder & CTO We had an internal development team maintaining our preview environments that we spin up for automated tests in CI. The previews never worked exactly the way we wanted and the took our engineers away from what they needed to be focused on: our product! We switched over Okteto Enterprise and couldn't be happier. We use Okteto to automaticall spin up the environments using their GitHub Action whenever pull requests are created. The automated tests run against the environments in the cloud and are torn down the the testing process completes. If we need to make an environment stay active longer, we add a custom label to the PR and the environment will stay active until the PR is closed. The whole process is great and we never have to worry about it. It just works. ### Okteto is awesome! Leonid M. | CTO We use Okteto daily and it drastically shortened our cycles, everyone from QA engineers to business steakholders are now in the loop on all the changes and can approve them or provide feedback before it hits our staging environment. ### Growth enabler Ants K. | VP of Product Engineering Katana has evolved beyond the limitations of traditional local development environments, where the entire ecosystem was once hosted on a single PC or localhost setup. Today, engineers can spin up specific environments tailored to the areas of the product they need to work on, significantly improving development efficiency and reducing resource overhead. Our partnership with Okteto has been key in this transformation. The collaboration with Okteto has been seamless, with their team consistently going above and beyond to provide guidance and support. Their proactive approach and dedication to customer success has been noticeable. ### Streamlines development process Sophia S. | Consultant The best thing about Okteto is how it streamlines our development process for cloud-native applications by providing a fully automated development environment in Kubernetes. Okteto allows our developers to spin up replicas of their production environments quickly, so they can test and iterate code directly in a Kubernetes environment without managing infrastructure. This means our devs move fast and save multiple hours per days with removed manual tasks associated with managing environments. ### Excellent tool simplify development for complex Kubernetes apps Michial D. | Front End Developer It just improves the developer experience tremendously. It requires a bit of effort to setup depending on your specific usecase but after that it saves the developers a lot of frustration and time. It means that when you onboard a developer, he basically only needs to install a cli tool and run 2 commands and he/she will have full access to a fully configured dev environment that also closely mirrors production. The developer will not have to spend any time on configuring architecture or secrets, benefitting security as well. ## Ready to Give your Agents the right environment to prove their work? [Get a demo](https://www.okteto.com/get-demo)[Get started for free](https://www.okteto.com/signup)