epinio VS lima

You could have a look to https://epinio.io/. It is a PAAS that leverage build pack to deploy app on k8s cluster. Disclaimer: my team is working on it

Epinion

Would have helped if I spent it right 😂 - https://github.com/epinio/epinio

Epinio can be installed using Helm onto any compliant Kubernetes Cluster. The latest CLI release can be found at [][https://github.com/epinio/epinio/releases]

We are building a product (Epinio) to avoid this. The idea is that devs don't need to access the cluster and to know the Kubernetes internals to deploy something. It's still in alpha/beta, with a lot of development ongoing. 🙂

For the Apache/php container portion and building the app itself, I'd suggest looking at buildpacks (Paketo buildpacks are easy). This can let you standardize on the code->container pipeline. (I'm biased since I'm working on Epinio which uses them to simplify the code->running application pipeline)

For dev work, we also are working on a project called Epinio which takes a bit of a different approach to developing on top of Kubernetes. (https://epinio.io)

Your workflow describes the inner loop of development. Take a look at https://skaffold.dev that. If you can’t be bothered to learn how to write k8s manifests, epinio might be worth a shot. I tried it on some simple stuff and it worked but I doubt it’s usefulness in complex setups. https://github.com/epinio/epinio

You can run a virtual machine (e.g. lima) from inside a nix-shell, exactly as you would do with a regular shell.

for others similarly curious, here's an example of the thing: https://github.com/noop-inc/template-java-spring-boot/blob/m...

they seem to be using the excellent lima <https://github.com/lima-vm/lima#readme> for booting on macOS; I run colima for its containerd and k8s support but strongly recommend both projects $(brew install lima colima)

Lima is what I use as well. It's quick and easy to just fire up a VM with default settings, but also very easy to configure with different file sharing options, port forwarding, different linux distributions, etc. (their examples are also pretty good IMO [1]).

In particular I use it to run an amd64 VM, which I need to run a stubborn service for work that doesn't run on arm CPUs.

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples

Lima (1) is a project that packages Linux distros for MacOS and executes them via qemu in the backend. Maybe you could solve your problem by launching one of their vms and inspecting the command line it generates. You might find an option you were missing.

(1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

If you wish to delve into all the configuration possibilities for Lima VM, you can visit this resource.

I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:

https://lima-vm.io/

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI.

Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md