okteto VS tilt-extensions

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.

The first is the load function which loads Tilt extensions. It's a way to expand the tool's features, and several are available. Here we are using docker_build_with_restart, which will update the container running inside our Kubernetes cluster.

This is the central viewport into manual resource control and environment enhancement through the open-source extensions for Tilt.

argocd for cd Tilt

Recently, I found Tilt [0] to be a good partner of mine to run "all services locally". It can be compared to "webpack (live-reloading, a lot of configuration possibilities) for backend". You want to run a bunch of services directly? Use local_resource()/local(). You have Procfile? There is procfile() function. You have docker-compose.yml with databases? You can run it too with docker_compose(). You want have Tiltfile and include them all-together? There is load(). You need some web-ui for frontend devs and a nice log browser? It is there too. You need to do some extra steps before running a service? You want to update your local cluster with newly built image on file save? No problem, tilt will do that with k8s_yaml() function. Tilt uses Titlfiles for configuration, which are written Pythonish Starlark language and you use them to run any specific logic there.

Also, I am not very lucky in having resemble 1:1 k8s cluster locally. You could be close but as long as you don't run already in cloud you will have different configuration (additional annotations, various quirks that do not exist in kind/k3s but they are on GCP). However, making dedicated dev environments in the cloud might be very costly and incur a lot of additional tinkering.

[0]: https://tilt.dev/

If `host` means your production/staging hosts or whatever, you should get out of that habit now. Look into something like tilt.dev or telepresence.io or any number of other solutions that help solve this issue. Doing it directly on any host is just a recipe for bad habits and disaster.

The article doesn't mention k3d (https://k3d.io/) which is a variant of k3s that runs in docker (rather than a VM) - very nice for k8s dev/test on developer workstations.

It integrates very nicely with https://tilt.dev/ also (another very useful tool for k8s related dev/test).

If this is an issue during development then you can use something like tilt with docker-compose to directly copy modified source inside container and incrementally build it. https://tilt.dev/

I'd add Tilt

Tilt

Along similar lines, how about comparing Devspace to [Tilt](https://tilt.dev/)?