Scripts for running multiple isolated development environments in parallel using tilt and kind.

You don't need to run everything or anything in Kubernetes - workloads can run as local resources and still get benefits of dynamic port allocations, data duplication and nice Tilt UI.

• Creates isolated Kind clusters with unique names
• Spins up local container registry for each cluster
• Dynamically allocates ports to avoid conflicts
• Optionally provides owned data copy for an environment
• Handles cleanup

See geometa repository for a working example. Check the .tilt folder for the configuration.

• kind
• tilt - Local Kubernetes development
• podman
• kubectl
• just
  • Not a hard requirement, you can run it however you want

Your project needs this structure:

your-project/
├── Tiltfile                  # Main Tilt configuration
├── .tilt/
│   ├── project.env          # Project configuration
│   ├── k8s/                 # Kubernetes manifests (if using them)
│   │   └── *.yaml
│   └── scripts/             # this repo
│       ├── tilt-with-cluster.sh
│       ├── kind-with-registry.sh  
│       ├── find-available-port.sh
│       └── justfile
└── whatever/                    # Your application code

Create .tilt/project.env with:

PROJECT_NAME=your-project

# Initial ports to dynamically allocate
# Must start with TILT_PORT_ to be recognized
TILT_PORT_POSTGRES=5432
TILT_PORT_API=3000
TILT_PORT_FRONTEND=5173

# Space separated data folders that need to be precreated if you gonna mount them inside k8s
DATA_FOLDERS=postgres

Craft your Tiltfile where you use port variables set in .tilt/project.env - those will be swapped to available values on start.

In my projects I have root justfile importing tilt script import ".tilt/scripts/justfile".

# normal run without data duplicate
just run

# with data duplicate
just run true