Microservices are the go-to architecture for building scalable systems with large teams. While Kubernetes has become the standard platform for deploying and running microservices, the development experience still lags behind. Running an entire distributed system on a developer’s laptop is often slow, impractical, and painful.

In this talk, I’ll show an advanced, yet practical way to create a developer-friendly environment fully integrated with Kubernetes. With this approach, you can run and debug your microservice locally, while letting Kubernetes manage all the other services (whether on your machine or a remote cluster) and seamlessly bridge these two worlds together.