Audience
mirrord is intended for developers and AI coding agents building software on Kubernetes, in organizations of any size.
About 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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Pricing
Starting Price:
Free
Pricing Details:
Open source free (MIT); mirrord for Teams is per-seat commercial with a self-serve trial, no credit card required.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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Company Information
MetalBear
Founded: 2022
Global
metalbear.com/mirrord
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mirrord Product Features
Application Development
Compatibility Testing
Supported
Debugging
Supported
Software Development
Supported
Web App Development
Supported
Access Controls/Permissions
Not Supported
Code Assistance
Not Supported
Code Refactoring
Not Supported
Collaboration Tools
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Data Modeling
Not Supported
Deployment Management
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Graphical User Interface
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Mobile Development
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No-Code
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Reporting/Analytics
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Source Control
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Testing Management
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Version Control
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