feature-flags.mdx

title	Feature Flags
description	Okteto's feature flags on the CLI
sidebar_label	Feature Flags
id	feature-flags

Setting any feature flag variable as an Admin Variable will enable that feature flag for all operations within the cluster. Admin variables are equivalent to defining that variable on every developer's machine.

Below is a list of those variables that you can use to leverage these newer and experimental features:

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
OKTETO_AUTOGENERATE_STIGNORE	If true, generates the .stignore file when running okteto up	false
OKTETO_AUTODEPLOY	If set, forces the deployment of the development environment on okteto up	false
OKTETO_AUTO_DOWN_ENABLED	If set, okteto up will run okteto down on exit if all the commands are succesful	false
OKTETO_BUILDKIT_FRONTEND_IMAGE	Specifies the default docker image to use for the BuildKit frontend	Built-in Dockerfile frontend
OKTETO_BUILDKIT_MAX_RETRIES_FOR_TRANSIENT_ERRORS	Specifies the maximum number of retry attempts for build processes that fail due to transient (temporary) BuildKit errors	3
OKTETO_BUILDKIT_WAIT_TIMEOUT	Specifies the maximum duration to wait for BuildKit to become available	10m
OKTETO_BUILDKIT_RETRY_INTERVAL	Specifies the interval between successive checks of BuildKit's availability status	5s
OKTETO_BUILD_QUEUE_ENABLED	Enables the Build Queue System that routes builds to optimal build pods based on real-time metrics and queues builds when all pods are busy	false
OKTETO_BUILDKIT_QUEUE_WAIT_TIMEOUT	Specifies the maximum duration to wait in the build queue before timing out	10m
OKTETO_COMPOSE_UPDATE_STRATEGY	Defines the update strategy that the compose must translate (it can be one of: rolling/recreate/on-delete)	N/A
OKTETO_COMPOSE_VOLUME_AFFINITY_ENABLED	Compose services mounting the same volume will be placed on the same node using Kubernetes's pod affinity	true
OKTETO_COMPOSE_WAIT_FOR_DEPENDENCIES	Determines whether the wake job should honor the depends_on order defined in Docker Compose files.	false
OKTETO_DEV_PERSISTENT_VOLUME_SIZE	Override the default persistent volume size for Development Containers. Set in binary SI units (e.g. 2Gi)	N/A
OKTETO_DISABLE_SPINNER	If set, disables the spinner rotation	false
OKTETO_INHERIT_KUBERNETES_RESOURCES	When enabled, development container inherits CPU and memory requests/limits from the original resource (deployment or statefulset) if they are not already defined in the Okteto Manifest	false
OKTETO_INHERIT_KUBERNETES_NODESELECTOR	When enabled, development container inherits the node selector from the original resource (deployment or statefulset) if it is not already defined in the Okteto Manifest	false
OKTETO_FOLDER	Defines the path where the Okteto folder is located	$OKTETO_HOME/.okteto
OKTETO_KUBERNETES_TIMEOUT	Specifies the timeout while deploying	0
OKTETO_LOCAL_REGISTRY_STORE_PRIORITY_ENABLED	Gives more priority to the local registry credentials than the Okteto Registry Credentials	false
OKTETO_PARALLEL_WAKE_UPS_FOR_DEVENVS	Specifies if the dev environments within a namespace should wake up in parallel or not	false
OKTETO_SERVICES_UP_WAIT	If set, waits for file synchronization to complete before starting the services defined in the services section	false
OKTETO_SMART_BUILDS_ENABLED	Enables the Smart Builds feature that uses a hash of the build context to determine if an image needs to be rebuilt or can be pulled from the registry. This can accelerate build times	true
OKTETO_SMART_BUILDS_IGNORE_FILES_ENABLED	When enabled, files listed in .dockerignore will be excluded from the smart build context calculation	false
OKTETO_SUPPORT_STACKS_ENABLED	Support Okteto Stacks syntax	false
OKTETO_SYNCTHING_VERSION	Specifies the Syncthing version the CLI must use	N/A
OKTETO_USE_STATIC_KUBETOKEN	Use a fixed token rather than a dynamic token for interactions with the Kubernetes API	false