KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Building and testing your microservice-based application becomes difficult when you can no longer run everything locally due to resource requirements. Moving to the cloud for testing is a no-brainer, but how do you synchronize your local changes against your remote Kubernetes environment? Following the usual container build-push-test cycle makes your inner development loop slower because you’d have to wait for minutes, sometimes hours, before seeing the impact of your code changes, and this dramatically reduces the number of iterations you can perform, the features you can ship to your end-users and negatively impacts the developer experience. Using three companies as a case study, this talk highlights how adopting the open source CNCF tool Telepresence improved their developer experience, accelerated their inner dev loop, and reduced staging environment compute costs. An explanation of what Telepresence is and a demo of how to implement it will also be covered in this talk.