Telepresence
Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters.
Why Telepresence:
Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine.
Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging.
Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
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Epsagon
Epsagon enables teams to instantly visualize, understand and optimize their microservice architectures. With our unique lightweight auto-instrumentation, gaps in data and manual work associated with other APM solutions are eliminated, providing significant reductions in issue detection, root cause analysis and resolution times. Increase development velocity and reduce application downtime with Epsagon.
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Gefyra
Building and pushing containers to test them in Kubernetes is repetitive and time-consuming. Writing and debugging code that depends on services in Kubernetes is daunting. Especially if they are not reachable during development.
Gefyra is an Open Source project that runs local code in any Kubernetes cluster without the build and push cycle. It overlays containers in the cluster making code changes immediately available.
Gefyra enables you to:
- Run containers and talk to internal services on an external Kubernetes cluster
- Operate feature-branches in a production-like Kubernetes environment with all adjacent services
- Overlay Kubernetes cluster-internal services with you local container.
- Leverage development clusters for multiple developers at the same time.
- Write code in the IDE you already love
- Leverage all the neat development features, such as debugger, code-hot-reloading, overriding
- Run high-level integration tests against all dependent services
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mirrord
mirrord is an open-source tool that runs any process, on a developer's machine or in an AI agent's environment, as if it were a pod in a remote Kubernetes cluster: real env vars, DNS, network, and traffic, with no deployment step.
mirrord lets developers and AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) work against the cluster's real APIs, databases, and queues from the first line of code, shortening the loop from writing code to seeing it run on real infrastructure. An entire organization can share one staging cluster, with hundreds of developers and agents working concurrently without interfering with each other.
mirrord is MIT-licensed, ships as a CLI with IDE extensions for Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and IntelliJ, and works at the OS level, so it supports any language and any Kubernetes cluster. The commercial offering, mirrord for Teams, makes shared-cluster concurrency safe at scale: concurrent steal-with-filter, RBAC, database branching, and queue splitting, and more.
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