# Okteto

> Okteto is a developer platform that moves Kubernetes development, preview, and testing environments into the cloud. Founded in 2018 by three former Atlassian, Docker, and Google engineers and backed by Y Combinator, Okteto lets developers spin up production-like environments with a single command, sync code changes live in seconds, and automatically create preview environments for every pull request. In 2025 the company extended the same infrastructure to AI coding agents, giving each agent its own isolated, production-like environment to build, test, and verify code at scale.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ramiro Berrelleza (Co-founder & CEO), Pablo Chico de Guzman (Co-founder & CTO), Ramon Lamana (Co-founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~18-21 employees
- **Products:** Development Environments, Preview Environments, Okteto Manifest, Okteto Test, Resource Manager & Garbage Collection
- **Notable:** Backed by Y Combinator (Winter 2019 batch), Raised $18M+ across seed and Series A rounds, Reached ~$5M in revenue with a lean ~21-person team in 2024

## Products & services

- **Development Environments** — Deploy and develop applications directly in the cloud with a single CLI command or button click. Code locally and see changes live in a Kubernetes environment thanks to instant code synchronization.
- **Preview Environments** — Automatically spin up a unique, shareable version of the application for every Git pull request, streamlining code review, end-to-end testing, and stakeholder feedback.
- **Okteto Manifest** — An environment-as-code approach that standardizes and automates every development environment on Kubernetes.
- **Okteto Test** — Runs tests directly inside Kubernetes environments to minimize discrepancies between development and production setups.
- **Resource Manager & Garbage Collection** — Analyzes real-time usage, scales idle applications to zero, and deletes unused resources to control cloud costs.
- **Okteto Bring Your Own Cloud** — Run the Okteto platform inside your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account for full control over data and infrastructure.
- **Okteto AI Agent Fleets** — Orchestrate, run, and test AI coding agents at scale, each in its own ephemeral, production-like, governed environment.

## Achievements

- Backed by Y Combinator (Winter 2019 batch)
- Raised $18M+ across seed and Series A rounds
- Reached ~$5M in revenue with a lean ~21-person team in 2024
- Grew from an open-source CLI into an enterprise platform
- SOC2 Type 2 compliant
- Customers include monday.com, LaunchDarkly, and Replicated
- Launched AI Agent Fleets, extending cloud environments to agentic development

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Launched Okteto AI Agent Fleets (early beta) to run and test AI coding agents at scale, each in its own governed environment, plus a free tier to try it.
- **2024-11** — Reached approximately $5M in annual revenue with a roughly 21-person team.
- **2024** — Released Okteto Test for running tests directly inside Kubernetes environments.

## Links

- Website: https://okteto.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/okteto
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/oktetohq
- GitHub: https://github.com/okteto
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Okteto

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Last updated: 2026-07-11