Okteto

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Introduction

Okteto calls itself the environment platform for agentic development. It provides development environments, shareable preview environments for every pull request, test environments where tests run directly inside the environment, and isolated environments for AI coding agents, all on Kubernetes.

Environments are defined in an okteto.yml manifest that builds images, deploys with Compose, Helm or manifests, and declares tests. Okteto runs in your own Kubernetes cluster as self-hosted software.

In the quality loop Okteto supports integration and end-to-end testing against realistic, per-branch environments.

Features

1. Preview environments: One per pull request.
2. Dev environments: Remote Kubernetes development with sync.
3. Test environments: Run tests inside the environment.
4. Agent environments: Isolated workspaces for coding agents.
5. okteto.yml: Declarative build, deploy and test.
6. Unlimited environments: Plans priced per user, not per environment.

Pros

1. Predictable pricing: Per user, with unlimited environments.

Cons

1. Kubernetes required: Runs on your cluster.
2. Learning curve: Manifest and workflow concepts to learn.
3. Enterprise features gated: Larger plans needed for some capabilities.

Usage and Links (Example)

okteto context use https://okteto.example.com
okteto deploy
okteto test

Resources:

• Okteto website

Pricing

Okteto’s Starter plan is free for up to 5 users with no credit card. Scale and Enterprise plans are priced per user with unlimited environments; contact Okteto for pricing or a larger trial licence.

Recommended for?

1. Kubernetes-based teams wanting preview and test environments.
2. Teams running AI coding agents that need isolated environments.

Conclusion

Okteto gives teams realistic Kubernetes environments for development, review and testing.

The free Starter plan is enough to evaluate it with a small team.

On CheckOps, Okteto is filed under the Release & CI gates and Integration testing stages. Related tools listed here include Bunnyshell, Testkube, kind, Testcontainers, Argo Rollouts and Playwright. Which one fits best depends mostly on your stack, your team’s size and skills, and whether you prefer to run tools yourself or pay for a managed service. This page reflects the official website, documentation and repository as they stood on 11 November 2026.