Okteto Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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