Production-like environments, without the platform work.
Self-service environments your developers and agents can launch in a click.
Runs on your cloud. Your cluster, your VPC, your data.
Right now, your team has two bad options.
Both of the old options push the same work back onto your platform team, and neither gives developers a realistic place to test.
Option 1
Everyone on their own
Local stacks never match. Versions drift, onboarding takes too long, and "it works on my machine" becomes the norm.
Option 2
One shared environment
The queue becomes the bottleneck. Broken deploys block the whole team, and no one can test changes in parallel.
Best option
Self-service environments
Your platform team defines it once. Developers get their own, identical environment every time, with the full stack in it.
A real environment, in a click, with the workflow they already have.
Developers connect to Kubernetes and start coding. Their changes run in a production-like environment in seconds, not after a commit, a CI run and a deploy.
Code locally, run on Kubernetes.
Save a file, see the result in a real environment immediately.
Keep your tools.
Any IDE, any language, any stack.
No configuration archaeology.
Okteto uses the Helm charts, Docker Compose files and Kubernetes manifests you already have.
Run the real tests.
Okteto runs your test suites against real services and real data, not mocks.
Four things that make Okteto different.
The whole app, not just Kubernetes
Okteto provisions the cloud resources your app needs, like databases, queues and buckets, on your cloud and tears them down with the environment.
Deploy what you change. Share the rest.
Deploy only the services you're working on and route everything else to shared instances. Or run a fully isolated copy when you need to.
Real data, in every environment
Okteto snapshots your reference data and hydrates every new environment, so developers test with real records, not empty databases.
Environments that clean up after themselves
Policies for TTL, scale-to-zero and automatic deletion keep environments from lingering, so costs don't rise.
Trusted by platform teams
“The productivity increase is huge. Developers don’t need any extra time handling environment setup and can work on what matters, which is the product itself.”
"We chose Okteto because it removes the need for every engineer to have a deep understanding of the kubernetes infrastructure. Okteto just works."
When agents do the work
Give your coding agents a real environment to build, test, and ship.
Questions before you sign up?
Yes. Okteto installs into a cluster you own and control. Any managed Kubernetes works, including EKS, GKE and AKS, and with BYOC on AWS or GCP, Okteto runs in your own cloud account.
Yes. Okteto runs in your own cloud account (BYOC) or on your own Kubernetes clusters (Self-Hosted). Your code, images, environments and data never leave your infrastructure.
Under BYOC, Okteto operates only a monitoring and control plane, and it holds no customer data and no PII. Okteto is SOC 2 Type 2 audited and pen-tested every year.
Yes. Start with the free Starter plan for up to 5 users and move to Scale or Enterprise when you need more seats, SSO and support. Your environments and manifests carry over as they are.
No. Your platform team defines the environment once in an okteto.yaml file. Developers launch it from the CLI or the Okteto Dashboard and get a working environment without writing manifests.
Yes. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and any agent that can run a command use the same environments your developers do, under the same policies. See how Okteto works with coding agents.
No. You decide per environment whether it gets full isolation or deploys only the services being changed and routes the rest to shared instances. Idle environments scale to zero and are cleaned up automatically.