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Chaos Engineering with Litmus and Okteto Cloud
Cloud Native applications are, by definition, highly distributed, elastic, resistent to failure and loosely coupled. That's easy to say, and even diagram....

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020 Virtual!
This year, KubeCon CloudNative Europe is going virtual. Speakers from all over the world have spent the last month or so recording talks on everything...

Connecting to your Databases using Port Forwarding
One of the big benefits of Okteto Cloud is the ability to deploy Cloud Native Stores with a single click. Via the Okteto Cloud catalog you can deploy things...

Cloud-Based Development Environments from any Git Repository
Cloud-based development environments are getting a lot of traction due to its great benefits: instant onboarding, access to cloud infrastructure with no...

Serverless Development with Kubeless and Okteto
I'm a huge fan of serverless programming. I just love the simplicity of writing a small piece of code, running a command, and have it available on demand....

Crossplane Community Day 2020
Crossplane, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is an open source Kubernetes add-on that supercharges your Kubernetes clusters enabling you to provision...

Remote Development Environments with PyCharm, Okteto and Kubernetes
In the past, we've talked about how to develop remotely with VS Code. Today, I'm going to show you how you can use okteto to define and deploy a fully...

OSCONF 2020 Bangalore – An Open Source Community Conference
This week, we were part of OSCONF Bangalore 2020, and online conference on Open Source and Cloud Native Technologies. The conference was organized by our...

Build your React + Express App in Okteto Cloud
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It was originally created by Facebook, and over the years it has become one of the most broadly...

Don't Build and Push, Move Your Inner Loop to Your cluster!
This week, we were part of the AllTheTalks.online conference, a 23.9999 hour online-only conference on all things DevOps, Development & Security. And,...
Okteto Cloud is Now Available in your Favorite Android Device
Our community star Jeevanjot Singh is back at it again. You might remember him from the post we wrote a couple of weeks ago on how to get started with...

Okteto Cloud meets GitOps
GitOps is the new way to deliver applications in Kubernetes. It uses Git as a single source of truth for your applications, automating delivery by using...

Get Started with the Okteto Cloud Application Catalog
Author bio: Jeevanjot Singh is a full stack developer. He is a game developer, graphic designer and video editor as a freelancer and also experienced with...

How to Develop and Debug Ruby Applications in Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production...

Okteto Push - Your Code to Kubernetes in Seconds
We've been talking to a lot of developers since we started building Okteto. Every team has very unique challenges, but one that came up pretty regularly...

Okteto Registry - A container registry for your dev images
When I'm working on a new feature or service there are always moments where I want to get a snapshot of my progress and test it end to end. I'll save all...

How to Develop and Debug ASP.NET Core Applications in Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production...

Develop TensorFlow with Jupyter Notebooks in Okteto Cloud
Machine Learning and Data Analytics are becoming quite popular for mainstream data processing and TensorFlow notebooks are one of the leading platforms...

Local Kubernetes Development With Crossplane and Okteto
Last week I co-hosted an episode of The Binding Status with Crossplane's maintainer Daniel Mangum. It was a blast! We talked about our open source project,...

A Developer-First User Interface
Our main goal at Okteto is to build software experiences that developers love and help them be much more productive. A crucial part of providing a great...

How to Develop and Debug Python Applications on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production...

Deploy OpenFaaS in One Click
OpenFaaS is an open source project that makes it simple to deploy functions to Kubernetes written on any language. Many well known companies use it to...

Step Out from the Dark Ages, Develop the Cloud Native Way
If you build software, the words it works on my machine have slipped out of your mouth at least once in your life. If you Google it you’ll probably find...

Develop and Deploy a Grails application in Okteto Cloud
Microservice-based applications make our applications more scalable. But they also make it harder to setup local development environments. You need to...

How to Develop and Debug PHP Applications in Kubernetes
If you are building a cloud-based application at scale, running it in Kubernetes is a no-brainer: It's been adopted by the industry at an incredible rate,...

How to Develop and Debug Node.js Applications on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production...

How to Deploy to Okteto Cloud with GitHub Actions
We're very excited to announce that Okteto's GitHub Actions are now publicly available 🎉! With our new GitHub Actions, it's easier than ever to build...

BuildKit as a Service in Okteto Cloud
We are thrilled to announce that you can now build Docker images from your local source code directly in Okteto Cloud, all powered by BuildKit. Another...

Remote Kubernetes Development in Visual Studio Code with Okteto
Microsoft released the Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension Pack a few months ago, enabling developers to work with remote development environments...

How to Develop and Debug Go Applications on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production...