Platform Builders Can Automate Lifecycle Control for Every Environment
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Okteto, the leader in modern development experience automation, announced today at KubeCon Europe 2023 a new Okteto Release 1.7 with External Resources that integrate any resource with Kubernetes development environments. External Resources are used to access any resource including applications, databases, message brokers, serverless functions, security infrastructure, reporting dashboards, etc that are not available as containerized services and can be hosted anywhere. Once an External Resource is defined in Okteto, developers can instantly deploy, run, and test cloud native microservices without concern for configuring support for external dependencies with a single-click. Okteto Release 1.7 with External Resources is available in both SaaS and self-hosted offerings.
Typically Platform and DevOps teams are required to install and configure applications, execute custom admin scripts just to keep up with provisioning and de-provisioning infrastructure for development. As a result, developers are often stuck waiting for environments, when they could be developing applications. Now Platform and Development Experience teams can build a single development experience to govern the environments for all microservices and development resources and continuously automate a modern experience for all developers.
"When customers are in production with microservices and Kubernetes, many want to develop on Kubernetes. When microservices are dependent on any external resources this significantly slows down development and the lifecycle control for environments. Our goal with External Resources is to enable platform engineering teams with all the necessary features to deliver a complete modern lifecycle and a developer experience for any resource anywhere," said Ramiro Berrelleza, CEO and Co-founder, Okteto
Customers are evolving to Microservices and Kubernetes Platforms
Modern application development teams can now speed the adoption of Kubernetes-ready architecture with support for existing non-container workloads. Not all required application resources are implemented in containers nor hosted on Kubernetes which can be a blocker to releasing new applications. Now that Okteto has released External Resources, many legacy applications, infrastructure, as well as modern applications services can be automated with every development environment to speed productivity and delivery. Customers and technology partners will be using Okteto to provide a robust, incremental path to cloud native microservice applications.
"Okteto and LaunchDarkly share a common vision to provide developers the ultimate modern software development experience. Okteto's External Resources allows our developers and our broader community to fully integrate LaunchDarkly in their development environment and gain the benefits of feature flags as soon as they start developing," said John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder, LaunchDarkly
"Modern app developers using Okteto can use best-in-category services like MongoDB Atlas directly from their development environments with scalable and secure data environments for any cloud. We are excited about how our customers can leverage this cutting edge development experience automation," Andrew Davidson, SVP, Products at MongoDB
"Customers developing applications need access to secure, consistent, and high integrity production-like data. Especially during development and testing, it's critical to execute modern apps with a modern production-like environment. Developers can now use Okteto External Resources with Privacy Dynamics to automatically spin-up the exact production like app and data environments without any additional headaches for the developer or test engineers. We are excited about partnering with Okteto to enable great development experiences," John Craft, CTO, Privacy Dynamics
External Resources Extend Modern Development Experience Automation
Platform and Development Experience Engineers are able to provision environments in Kubernetes that can now access resources anywhere with a single-click experience. Okteto External Resources includes:
Platform and Development Experience Engineering Benefits
With Okteto, the entire team can enjoy benefits such as increased visibility, improved trust, and more governance and control. The team can quickly find and manage app dependencies and mitigate the risk of manual deployment errors.
With the addition of External Resources, the Okteto experience enables faster and higher quality transition to cloud native apps and platforms, providing more innovation and value to developers and startups.
About Okteto
Okteto is the leading platform for Modern Development Experience Automation. Our customers speed innovation by lowering development friction and increasing productivity from development to deployment. Customers include Monday.com, Replicated, and LaunchDarkly.
With Okteto, Platform and Development Experience teams can standardize and manage all the environments, automation tasks, and runtime dependencies using a single platform. Developers have instant, one-click access to scalable Kubernetes development environments with production like cloud deployments.
Modern Development Experience Automation focuses on automating a modern lifecycle including environments, development tasks and collaboration, and the best on-demand developer experience. Together, Modern Development Experience Automation delivers the ultimate visibility, trust, and control for modern development teams, from developers and testers to product evaluators and deployment teams.
For more information: www.okteto.com
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