okteto VS kind

There are dedicated tools just for that. Apart from skaffold check also tilt.dev, garden.io, devspace.sh, okteto.com

Check also devspace.sh and okteto.com

You can consider using okteto for development environments, it lets you deploy your local code directly to k8s replacing the existing pods, our team uses it and it works pretty well with Golang.

Okteto is an application that allows you to develop inside a container, along with many features it permit the user to start a development environment and provide an automatic SSL Endpoints for k8s.

With Infrastructure as Code at its current state of maturity, it’s now easier than ever to replicate microservice environments in the cloud. This unlocked a new approach of having a personal production-like cloud environment for every developer, which they can use freely and in isolation. It comes in two flavors - persistent environments, or ephemeral environments created on demand with products like Okteto or Bunnyshell (also sometimes called Environment as a Service)1. This approach overcomes the resource limitations of the local environment but substitutes them for some new difficulties:

Remote development will be popular? Yes.

But developing in a monolithic machine may be not. The development environment should be clean and isolated, and products like gitpod and coder is promising.

Besides this, maybe you can have a look at https://github.com/tensorchord/envd and https://github.com/okteto/okteto

Okteto accelerates the development workflow of Kubernetes applications. You write your code locally and okteto detects the changes and instantly updates your Kubernetes applications.

Hey! Recently, I’ve been playing around with [Okteto](https://www.okteto.com/) to see how it helps with the local development of apps that will run in Kubernetes. It seems to be quite a good option for developers who don’t want to spend their time dealing with setting up and maintaining clusters. Moreover, you can use a development environment from Okteto without thinking about CI/CD pipelines for delivering the app.So, instead of working on your code locally and deploying it then to the cluster, the whole development process is shifted straight to K8s. That makes Okteto approach a bit different from what other projects, like Skaffold and werf, do. To implement this idea, they offer a [CLI tool](https://github.com/okteto/okteto) and their own cloud provided as both SaaS and self-hosted (it has a limited free option).Here is [my overview](https://blog.flant.com/okteto-cloud-for-local-development-in-kubernetes/) of Okteto; any feedback — especially, your own experience — is more than welcome.

There's a long long route to cloudification, but works like Okteto[1] seem like a nice early pass at doing what Docker-Compose was capable of for fast local development, but modern. Pursuing remote-development makes a lot of sense. There's already solid VSCode integration[2].

If you just need a terminal like thing to local-dev in, toolbx[3] is probably the first choice.

[1] https://github.com/okteto/okteto

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=okteto.r...

[3] https://containertoolbx.org/

Hi Jacob. I am one of the founders of Okteto (https://okteto.com/), a remote development platform for Compose and Kubernetes applications. We use Syncthing to sync code between the developer laptop and pods running in Kubernetes. I would love to know your thoughts on the strengths and weak points of Mutagen vs Syncthing for this use case.

To get started, you'll need to install clusteradm and kubectl and start up three Kubernetes clusters. To simplify cluster administration, this article starts up three kind clusters with the following names and purposes:

Kind: is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes." It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself but can also be used for local development or continuous integration.

Fortunately, just as projects like kind and Minikube enable developers to spin up a local Kubernetes environment in no time, CRC, also known as OpenShift Local and a recursive acronym for "CRC - Runs Containers", offers developers a local OpenShift environment by means of a pre-configured VM similar to how Minikube works under the hood.

I recently purchased a used Lenovo M900 Think Centre (i7 with 32GB RAM) from eBay to expand my mini-homelab, which was just a single Synology DS218+ plugged into my ISP's router (yuck!). Since I've been spending a big chunk of time at work playing around with Kubernetes, I figured that I'd put my skills to the test and run a k3s node on the new server. While I was familiar with k3s before starting this project, I'd never actually run it before, opting for tools like kind (and minikube before that) to run small test clusters for my local development work.

Features compared to https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

Kind allows you to run a Kubernetes cluster inside Docker. This is incredibly useful for developing Helm charts, Operators, or even just testing out different k8s features in a safe way.

Check out KinD

If you're just messing around, just use kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io) or minikube if you want VMs (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io). Both work on ARM-based platforms.

You can also use k3s; it's hella easy to get started with and it works great.

We'll install APIClarity into a Kubernetes cluster to test our API documentation. We're using a Kind cluster for demonstration purposes. Of course, if you have another Kubernetes cluster up and running elsewhere, all steps also work there.

yes I know there is lens, but it does not allow me to see logs of multiple pods at same time and what is even more important it is not friendly for ephemeral clusters - in my case with help of kind I am recreating whole cluster each time from scratch