Tightening the Kubernetes Feedback Loop with Remocal Development

Cloud-native development comes with major challenges—local environments rarely match production, personal cloud environments are costly, and debugging remote applications is painful. The remote/local ("remocal") development workflow, enabled by mirrord, addresses these issues by allowing developers to run their code locally while seamlessly intercepting traffic and accessing remote resources running in the cluster. This removes the need for heavyweight local setups, reduces CI bottlenecks, and simplifies the development workflow.

In this talk, we’ll cover:

The remocal development workflow mirrord introduces, the challenges it solves, and how it simplifies cloud-native development.

A deep dive into the technical implementation of mirrord—how it overrides local syscalls to trick a local process into "thinking" it's running in the Kubernetes cluster.

A hands-on demo showing mirrord in action, demonstrating how it makes debugging and developing against a real cloud environment easier without running your entire stack on your laptop.

By the end, you'll have a new, practical approach to developing in the cloud in a faster, easier, and cheaper way.

Eyal Bukchin is the CTO and co-founder of MetalBear, the company behind mirrord, an open-source tool that lets developers run their code locally while connected to a remote Kubernetes environment. With years of experience in infrastructure and Kubernetes, Eyal is focused on simplifying cloud-native development. At MetalBear, he helps engineers avoid slow feedback loops and complex local setups by enabling direct development against production-like environments.