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What do you like best about Okteto?

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 manually tasks associated with managing environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

Occasionally, there are some minor bugs that need fixing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem solved is developers spending up to 3 hours per day manually managing environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Okteto?

Okteto boosts developer productivity by automating environment setup, reducing build times, and accelerating testing, so teams can code in minutes and onboard new members faster. Benefits of Okteto Pre-Configured Environments: Instantly access ready-to-code environments, eliminating manual setup and letting developers focus on building. Faster Build and Deployment Cycles: Accelerates build times, allowing for quicker feedback, testing, and iteration. Independent Management for Developers: Developers can manage their own environments without relying on platform teams or DevOps, reducing bottlenecks and improving productivity.

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Okteto transforms the way developers build, test, and deploy by eliminating the hassle of manual setup and configuration. With Okteto, your team can skip hours of preparation and jump straight into coding within minutes. Our platform automates environment provisioning, reduces build times, and accelerates testing, enabling rapid iteration and faster deployment cycles. By delivering pre-configured environments on demand, Okteto streamlines onboarding for new developers, empowering them to be productive from day one. Whether you’re looking to cut setup time, speed up feedback loops, or reduce the ramp-up period for new team members, Okteto boosts productivity across every stage of your development process.


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John C.
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John C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Preview Environments are a Breeze With Okteto"
We had an internal development team maintaining our preview environments that we spin up for automated tests in CI. The previews never worked exact...
Michiel d.
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Michiel d.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent/versatile tool to simplify development of apps with complex k8 architecture"
It just improves the developer experience tremendously. It requires a bit of effort to setup depending on your specific usecase but after that it s...
Floris N.
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Floris N.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Easily switch between different development or testing environments"
Okteto enables me to spin up new development environments with the click of a button. I can easily switch between different development or testing ...
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Heath H.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

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.

With it's great GitHub integration, we use Okteto to spin up a test environment (both automated and manual testing is possible) for every PR in multiple repos used in our project. This provides a controlled environment with main-branch functionality from related repos plus changes from the specific PR. The environments sleep automatically to conserve resources and tear down automatically once a PR is merged.

We've also used Okteto to provide a short-term demo environment for salespeople when the functionality is not yet ready for prime time, but can be made available for demo.

All-in-all it's a very useful tool with a great support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

There is occasionally the need to adapt our Docker files for upcoming changes to Okteto, but the team is good about giving plenty of notice, and working with us when we've needed more time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

We might be able to create Docker containers to handle some of the same things we do with Okteto, but the visibility and orchestration would be much less robust and there would be virtually no user-level controls on access, and likely much higher compute resource utilization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leonid M.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

Okteto was increadibly easy to set up, if your deployment is automated in any way you'd be able to get up & running within minutes. We opted to self-hosted option and it's been super easy to follow the documentation and get it all set up, configuration is very intuitive and the team is super responsive if you have any questions. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

I really can't think of anything here, the product is pretty much exactly what we were hoping for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were looking for solution for per branch previews so we can do early QA, idea validations, design reviews and things of that nature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John C.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

This wasn't an issue for us, but to use the enterprise version you need to install it in our infra. However, it's pretty easy to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Okteto allowed us to outsource preview environments and freed up our engineering time to work on higher priroities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michiel d.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

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.

Additionally okteto makes it easy to deploy previews or run test containers in production like environments. It integrates with CI/CD quite easily and the support has been excellent so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

We create k8 namespaces dynamically and okteto doesn't manage those currently. There are work arounds but they will come with trade-offfs. Additionally currently there is no way (as far as I am aware) to connect and develop with k8 jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its abstracting away the complexity of setting up a dev environment for a micro services like architecture. It means the developer can focus on writing business logic for his particular field instead of having to learn all kinds of things to be even able to deploy the product. What I also like is it offers the possibility of setting up a complete dev experience for your developer, with tools installed, secret configured and so on, so the developer can dive right in and benefit from the experience of the entire team that configure this together.

This all improves the experience but also development velocity a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Floris N.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

Okteto enables me to spin up new development environments with the click of a button. I can easily switch between different development or testing environments to develop or test different features (or bug fixes). In each environment I can deploy different combinations of branches for the microservices that make up our application. Additionally each environment can contain the specific test data that I need for developing a specific feature. When I need to work on an other feature temporarily I simply switch to the other environment while my current environment continues to exist.

When a new feature is ready for review one of our QA people can test directly in the existing environment. No need for a tester to spin up a separate testing environment (alhouth depending on your workflow you might want to spin up a new preview environment for QA, which is perfectly possible with Okteto as well). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

Not much really. It works just great for me.

The only thing is that, depending on your experience with remote development and on your IDE, it might take some time to set it up properly for remote development. But at least for VS code and PyCharm there are great guides and plugins that make it really easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

As mentioned before, Okteto enables us to set up new development environment with a single click of a button. Additionally it let's us have multipe development and/or testing environments at the same time and makes it very easy to switch between these environments.

It saves us a lot of time because we do not have to switch between local development environments when working on different features. Also it enables a great onboarding experience for new developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ants K.
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VP of Product Engineering
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What do you like best about Okteto?

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.

As an early adopter of Okteto, I want to extend a special thanks to Pablo, whose ongoing support and expertise have been invaluable in helping us scale and optimize our development processes over the years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

As with most products, hope to get more capabilities into Oktetos roadmap that would unlock growth and enable efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplification of development environment setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alberto M.
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What do you like best about Okteto?

What I like most from Okteto is the ability to preview environments so our Product team can "play" with recent changes and provide feedback before code is even merged.

Their support team is fast and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

Although Okteto simplifies and abstracts a lot of the Kubernetes concepts, there's still a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Development environments and preview environments, mostly. Having everything in the cluster for developers to test and share, and preview environments for Product team to validate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Okteto?

Helps make the process of deploy and running instances quickly and intuitivly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

could have better tutorials to help get started and understand what's possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

running containers quickly and easily by definign a clear infra as code file that explains what we are deploying and allow reviewing easily in git Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Okteto?

Very intuitive, so much power just in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

Haven't found any yet. Honestly it's a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very easy setup of dev environment, all in one place and very intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Okteto?

Oketo has transformed our workflow! The support team is quick and helpful, the features are powerful yet easy to use, and the clean UI makes navigation simple. Highly recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Okteto?

Oketo has been fantastic, and I feel like I’m just beginning to uncover its full potential. With so many features, there’s always something new to explore to boost our workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Okteto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Oketo streamlines our workflow and cuts down on repetitive tasks, boosting team efficiency and letting us focus on high-impact work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.