2 posts tagged with "kubernetes"

A few months ago we sit together to rethink our local development at Productboard. Product teams delivered features that relied now on more than one backend service and our set of bash scripts and docker-compose files stopped working. We decided to replace it with deployments to the local Kubernetes cluster in Docker Desktop to bring the local environment closer to production. And adopt Tilt to improve the developer experience.

Docker has long established itself as a standard for containerization and local development. So much that one would almost take it for granted, just like bash or basic UNIX commands. But with announced updates to Docker Desktop terms & conditions, it made me think: Can we even breathe without it on Macs, especially when we need to run multiple services locally? Let's explore possible alternatives...