Tilt
Local development environments for Kubernetes and microservices
Tilt is an open-source toolkit for managing local development of multi-service applications on Kubernetes. It watches code, rebuilds images, and provides a live dashboard for the self-hosted dev loop.
Key features
- Live multi-service dev loop
- Smart rebuilds
- Web dashboard
- Kubernetes native
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Mature project with 10k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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