Local Process with Kubernetes (Preview) is now available in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code

[greenie-msft]

Local Process with Kubernetes (Preview)

Local Process with Kubernetes puts your development computer in the context of your Kubernetes cluster. Write, test, and debug your microservice code on your development workstation, while consuming dependencies from your cluster. Redirect traffic from the cluster to your development computer to effectively remote debug. Local Process with Kubernetes gives you the confidence of full end-to-end testing during development with the speed and flexibility of running code directly on your development computer.

Local Process with Kubernetes (Preview) is now available in both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code.

• How Local Process with Kubernetes Works

• How to use Local Process with Kubernetes in Visual Studio 2019

• How to use Local Process with Kubernetes in Visual Studio Code

[AnandThanumalayan]

This is provided the Kubernetes cluster that the development computer tries to connect is accessible from the public network?
We usually deploy the AKS cluster nodes in private subnets for security reasons and manage deployments to it via a bastion host, even for dev environments.

[greenie-msft]

Hi @anandthanu

In theory, if you are able to execute kubectl commands from the bastion host, Local Process with Kubernetes should work.

Local Process with Kubernetes is now publicly available and I'm interested in hearing how this goes for your scenario. Please keep me posted and/or feel free to reach out to me directly via email with any further questions.

Nicholas.Greenfield@microsoft.com

[kenneth-trivec]

Hello,

This seems to look very promising since we were often having issues with quickly getting development up and running with DevSpaces.

However I have a few questions regarding working with multiple persons and their respective child spaces. How is traffic routed when we have different people redirecting traffic for multiple different services, because with the current DevSpace implementation everyone has their own child space which inherits services from the parent-space. This made it so we aren't blocking each other.

I currently am unable to see parent-space services to redirect traffic from when selecting a child-space. Is there something I am missing or is this something that still needs to be considered?

Thanks in advance.

[Gordonby]

Hi @kenneth-trivec

It's a good question, and you're correct - in this preview Local Process with Kubernetes won't facilitate the creation of a child space and deploying your service to that new space.
Bringing routing to Local Process with Kubernetes is next on our list of priorities.

As a workaround; In your existing Dev Space enabled AKS cluster you can use Local Process with Kubernetes to work on an existing service deployed in a child namespace.

[Eneuman]

Just a heads-up

The link to "How to use Local Process with Kubernetes in Visual Studio 2019" is not working.

I think is should be redirected to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-spaces/how-to/local-process-kubernetes-visual-studio
but right now it redirects to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-spaces/how-to/local-process-kubernetes-visualstudio

[Gordonby]

Thanks for pointing it out. I've fixed our short link to the page now. https://aka.ms/localprocesswithk8s-vs

[ahaeber]

Is it possible to use local process in non-VS environments? In particular JetBrains Rider would be lovely, but I'm happy with running from terminal as well.

[Gordonby]

Hi @ahaeber - we're currently focussing on the two VS environments, but we have it on the backlog to start looking at other IDE's.
I've not used Rider before, so thanks for the suggestion.

[econforti]

Hi @ahaeber - we're currently focussing on the two VS environments, but we have it on the backlog to start looking at other IDE's.
I've not used Rider before, so thanks for the suggestion.

Hi @Gordonby , your answer include that is on the track to work on Linux/ VS Code?

[luckyluc74]

Is it possible to use Local Process with Kubernetes in Visual Studio 2019 in combination with kubernetes from Docker Desktop? It would be nice that it would support generic kubernetes cluster like k3d/k3s/k8s and not having the requirement of using an azure account ( read: vendor lockin)

[Gordonby]

Hi @luckyluc74

We are working through supporting non-AKS clusters in our new “Local Process with Kubernetes” experiences. We don't yet have dates for when this will be supported, but it’s at the top of our backlog. The emphasis of this work initially is to provide a seamless experience on local/on-prem clusters.