# Feature Requests

**URL:** https://community.okteto.com/c/feature-requests/8.md

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## [About the Feature Requests category](https://community.okteto.com/t/about-the-feature-requests-category/28)

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**Author:** [@arsh](https://community.okteto.com/u/arsh)\
**Replies:** 0

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Tell us about any new and exciting ideas you might have related to Okteto! Start discussions on what you want to see us implement in our products. Some general guidelines: We love to hear the what of your feature req…

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## [Support additional securityContext options](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-additional-securitycontext-options/400)

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**Author:** [@dimeoa](https://community.okteto.com/u/dimeoa)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 13, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-additional-securitycontext-options/400 "2026-03-13T15:16:12Z")

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In our kubernetes setup, we set the namespaces to use “Restricted” level of security (Pod Security Standards | Kubernetes). With this level of security, containers must with a secuirtyContext equivalent to: securityCon…

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## [LLM providers and models](https://community.okteto.com/t/llm-providers-and-models/1440)

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**Author:** [@marticardus](https://community.okteto.com/u/marticardus)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 24, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/llm-providers-and-models/1440 "2025-10-24T11:01:47Z")

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Hi Okteto team :waving\_hand: I’d like to suggest two improvements related to Anthropic and Bedrock integrations: Support the Claude Code subscription Okteto already supports Anthropic models, which is great! However…

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## [Support Bottlerocket AMI type in EKS](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-bottlerocket-ami-type-in-eks/1408)

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**Author:** [@dmccorma](https://community.okteto.com/u/dmccorma)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-bottlerocket-ami-type-in-eks/1408 "2025-05-16T16:54:39Z")

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Our organization is standardizing on Bottlerocket-based nodes for our EKS clusters. However, it appears that Okteto does not currently support Bottlerocket nodes, so we had to revert back to AL2023 for our Okteto cluster…

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## [Add possibility to add information to catalog items](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-possibility-to-add-information-to-catalog-items/1288)

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**Author:** [@florisie](https://community.okteto.com/u/florisie)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 20, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-possibility-to-add-information-to-catalog-items/1288 "2024-06-20T08:53:50Z")

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It would be very convenient if we would have a possibility to add some custom information to the catalog items. In this way we can inform our developers about what a catalog item will deploy exactly and which/how variabl…

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## [Add actions/task buttons to UI](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-actions-task-buttons-to-ui/1289)

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**Author:** [@florisie](https://community.okteto.com/u/florisie)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-actions-task-buttons-to-ui/1289 "2024-06-11T10:17:46Z")

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We are using Okteto as much as possible to manage our development/testing environments. It would be very convenient for our developers if there would be a possibility to trigger certain actions from the Okteto UI. We do …

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## [UX - filtering for running pods in the namespace](https://community.okteto.com/t/ux-filtering-for-running-pods-in-the-namespace/227)

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**Author:** [@fishera123](https://community.okteto.com/u/fishera123)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/ux-filtering-for-running-pods-in-the-namespace/227 "2024-05-10T20:43:05Z")

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Hi, When there are many pods running in the namespace, its hard to find pods. Would be great if there will be filtering options for running pods.

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## [Install Okteto on EKS + Bottlerocket OS](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-okteto-on-eks-bottlerocket-os/568)

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**Author:** [@ramiro](https://community.okteto.com/u/ramiro)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-okteto-on-eks-bottlerocket-os/568 "2023-01-21T01:48:26Z")

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Currently, we only support Amazon Linux 2 and we don’t support Bottlerocket OS. Is this something you’d like us to support? If so, please like this topic to help us give it the right priority.

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## [Docker compose watch replaces syncthing?](https://community.okteto.com/t/docker-compose-watch-replaces-syncthing/1063)

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**Author:** [@Hosam](https://community.okteto.com/u/Hosam)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2023, 7:50am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/docker-compose-watch-replaces-syncthing/1063 "2023-10-09T07:50:11Z")

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Today, Docker announced the docker compose watch feature \* Use Compose Watch. From my understanding, docker compose watch is a built-in feature which is doing the same job what syncthing is doing for Okteto’s dev contai…

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## [Install Consul on Okteto Cloud](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-consul-on-okteto-cloud/1015)

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**Author:** [@WordlessEcho](https://community.okteto.com/u/WordlessEcho)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-consul-on-okteto-cloud/1015 "2023-08-14T09:41:11Z")

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Executing command 'helm repo add hashicorp https://helm.releases.hashicorp.com && helm upgrade --install consul hashicorp/consul --set global.name=consul'... "hashicorp" already exists with the same configuration, skippi…

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## [Dummy IngressClass in Okteto Cloud](https://community.okteto.com/t/dummy-ingressclass-in-okteto-cloud/786)

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**Author:** [@andrevtg](https://community.okteto.com/u/andrevtg)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/dummy-ingressclass-in-okteto-cloud/786 "2023-04-19T07:31:57Z")

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Currently any Ingress resource is forced the “nginx” IngressClass on Okteto Cloud. Can Okteto Cloud eventually ignore ingress resources that use a “dummy” IngressClass (it could be a predefined one)? That would help on …

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## [Customize slack webhook](https://community.okteto.com/t/customize-slack-webhook/137)

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**Author:** [@alexissellier](https://community.okteto.com/u/alexissellier)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/customize-slack-webhook/137 "2023-03-01T23:46:05Z")

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It would be nice to be able to customize slack webhook with values coming from the user account. The idea would be to send slack directly to developers on slack when their namespace would be destroyed (or better X days b…

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## [Install Okteto on GKE AutoPilot](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-okteto-on-gke-autopilot/567)

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**Author:** [@ramiro](https://community.okteto.com/u/ramiro)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/install-okteto-on-gke-autopilot/567 "2023-01-21T01:45:09Z")

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Currently, installing Okteto in a GKE-Autopilot cluster fails with the following error: Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: admission webhook "gkepolicy.common-webhooks.networking.gke.io" denied the request: GKE Warden rejected…

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## [Support negation syntax in Docker Compose advanced deploy config](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-negation-syntax-in-docker-compose-advanced-deploy-config/424)

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**Author:** [@tombakerjr](https://community.okteto.com/u/tombakerjr)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 14, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-negation-syntax-in-docker-compose-advanced-deploy-config/424 "2022-12-14T19:06:07Z")

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Currently I have my stack defined in a docker-compose.yml, which I reference in my Okteto manifest when deploying my development environment and it works great. Okteto currently supports specifying a subset of services t…

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## [Any plans to support setting the "readOnlyRootFilesystem" securityContext via okteto manifest?](https://community.okteto.com/t/any-plans-to-support-setting-the-readonlyrootfilesystem-securitycontext-via-okteto-manifest/268)

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**Author:** [@Jade](https://community.okteto.com/u/Jade)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/any-plans-to-support-setting-the-readonlyrootfilesystem-securitycontext-via-okteto-manifest/268 "2022-09-23T15:33:00Z")

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Hi there! The Okteto manifest allows you to override some of the container’s security context for development purposes: Okteto Manifest | Okteto Documentation One of the settings it’s missing is the “readOnlyRootFilesys…

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## [In build phase, services should be able to reference images built by other services](https://community.okteto.com/t/in-build-phase-services-should-be-able-to-reference-images-built-by-other-services/220)

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**Author:** [@dmccorma](https://community.okteto.com/u/dmccorma)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/in-build-phase-services-should-be-able-to-reference-images-built-by-other-services/220 "2022-09-06T13:37:00Z")

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Our application involves a few generic base images, and then more specific images for each service, which are based on those base images. After my discussions with Okteto personnel, it sounds like the Okteto build servic…

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## [Third party CRD list](https://community.okteto.com/t/third-party-crd-list/205)

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**Author:** [@andrevtg](https://community.okteto.com/u/andrevtg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/third-party-crd-list/205 "2022-08-18T03:28:18Z")

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A nice site feature would be an updated list of third-party CRDs supported in Okteto Cloud. Also it would be cool to define protocol to ask for their update. Thanks!

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## [Add secrets to user settings via CLI](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-secrets-to-user-settings-via-cli/198)

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**Author:** [@hadaromash](https://community.okteto.com/u/hadaromash)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 15, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/add-secrets-to-user-settings-via-cli/198 "2022-08-15T19:05:52Z")

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Would be nice to have the ability to add Secrets via CLI, instead of manually via the UI (Okteto Secrets | Okteto Documentation). My use case is that every developer in my group needs to add it’s own private secrets und…

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## [Support snapshot management from the UI](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-snapshot-management-from-the-ui/166)

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**Author:** [@rgavriel](https://community.okteto.com/u/rgavriel)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-snapshot-management-from-the-ui/166 "2022-07-21T10:06:32Z")

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We are working with snapshots in order to create an initial DB states for our Okteto pipelines. Those snapshots need to be updated as the DB schema changes over time. To ease this process, it would be great the have the…

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## [LitmusChaos 2.9.0 version](https://community.okteto.com/t/litmuschaos-2-9-0-version/95)

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**Author:** [@QAInsights](https://community.okteto.com/u/QAInsights)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/litmuschaos-2-9-0-version/95 "2022-07-20T12:35:58Z")

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Hi Team, Could you please add LitmusChaos 2.9.0 to the Helm catalog? The existing version is outdated and the functionalities are not working. Thank you

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## [Resume the sleep timer of a namespace when an okteto endpoints is requested](https://community.okteto.com/t/resume-the-sleep-timer-of-a-namespace-when-an-okteto-endpoints-is-requested/157)

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**Author:** [@alexissellier](https://community.okteto.com/u/alexissellier)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/resume-the-sleep-timer-of-a-namespace-when-an-okteto-endpoints-is-requested/157 "2022-07-20T07:36:45Z")

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When I do a browser request to an endpoints okteto has created, it should reset the “sleep timer” of the entire namespace and start again to 0.

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## [Okteto admin should have write permissions on all environments](https://community.okteto.com/t/okteto-admin-should-have-write-permissions-on-all-environments/156)

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**Author:** [@alexissellier](https://community.okteto.com/u/alexissellier)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/okteto-admin-should-have-write-permissions-on-all-environments/156 "2022-07-20T07:13:12Z")

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As an admin on the okteto admin dashboard, I would like to have write permissions on every environments deployed even if it has not been shared with me.

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## [OCI support in Okteto Enterprise built in registry](https://community.okteto.com/t/oci-support-in-okteto-enterprise-built-in-registry/108)

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**Author:** [@apopp](https://community.okteto.com/u/apopp)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/oci-support-in-okteto-enterprise-built-in-registry/108 "2022-06-14T11:48:29Z")

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It would be useful if the built-in okteto image registry was OCI enabled. By doing so we could also push helm chart artifacts there, and tightly integrate with the helm chart catalog feature built into Okteto.

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## [Support for GKE Workload Identities for Okteto Self-Hosted](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-for-gke-workload-identities-for-okteto-self-hosted/39)

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**Author:** [@ramiro](https://community.okteto.com/u/ramiro)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [June 1, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/support-for-gke-workload-identities-for-okteto-self-hosted/39 "2022-06-01T12:56:24Z")

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I’d would like to be able to move away from using the key.json method that is described in the docs to provide cloud DNS and Cloud Storage access to my Okteto Self-Hosted instance.
