Lightning Talk: Telepresence: Local Development & Debugging of Remote Kubernetes Services

Developers who use Kubernetes for multi-container applications face a conundrum: develop locally or on a remote Kubernetes cluster. Local development adds complexity to your development environment, s …

Developers who use Kubernetes for multi-container applications face a conundrum: develop locally or on a remote Kubernetes cluster. Local development adds complexity to your development environment, since you have to run (and maintain!) your entire multi-container app locally. On the other hand, a remote Kubernetes cluster doesn’t lend itself to live coding and debugging. In this talk, we will talk about Telepresence (https://www.telepresence.io), an open source tool for Kubernetes that lets you develop and debug a service locally, while setting up a bidirectional proxy to a remote Kubernetes cluster. With Telepresence, you can make a quick change to a service, save, and test it – while that service has full access to Kubernetes environment variables, ConfigMap, secrets, and other services running in your Kubernetes cluster.