Okteto
Remote development environments on Kubernetes
Okteto is an open-source tool that creates remote development environments inside Kubernetes clusters. The CLI synchronizes local code into a cluster pod so developers can iterate against self-hosted infrastructure.
Key features
- In-cluster dev environments
- Bidirectional file sync
- Remote debugging
- Hot reload
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Active community (3.5k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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