In a complex microservice architecture, developers typically spend up to weeks in order to get their local development working on a microservice. Once they have the local setup working, they still need to consider how their service runs locally to interact with other services in the microservice which probably running on cloud. Oftentimes, these services are isolated in different networks and might not be reachable locally thus increasing development complexity.

This talk will discuss how combining Skaffold and Google Cloud Workstations can simplify application development workflow in an organization. Cloud Workstations, recently announced in Next 22 as part of Software Delivery Shield, will provide developers with a configurable, secure, and easy-to-use development environment instantly. Meanwhile, Skaffold will simplify microservice development and testing in a production-like environment before the code gets pushed to the code repository and triggers CI/CD pipeline.

This talk will provide a brief introduction to these technologies and a live demo to show how they work in the microservice architecture.