Introduction to Tilt

In this episode, joined by Dan Bentley and Ellen Korbes, we take a look at how Tilt can make developing our applications against Kubernetes easier.

Tilt provides productivity for teams building Kubernetes apps with smart rebuilds, continuous feedback, live updates, snapshots, and a lot more.

tilt up and grok your workflow.

🕰 Timeline

00:00 - Holding Screen
01:15 - Introductions
02:00 - Is developing against Kubernetes easy?
02:45 - What is Tilt?
04:20 - What does Tilt achieve?
06:00 - Can I use Tilt to develop ALL applications?
07:45 - Tilt doesn’t use YAML, y’all!
09:40 - Should all development teams use Tilt?
10:40 - Installing Tilt
12:00 - My first Tiltfile
13:00 - As usual, I mess up. We need a new plan 😂
15:00 - Incremental Tiltfiles (This is cool!)
16:00 - Building a Docker image
17:00 - Shit, create a Dockerfile very quickly
19:30 - Adding Kubernetes manifests
20:00 - Adding VSCode plugin
21:00 - Using Tilt CLI mode
23:15 - Exposing our application locally with a port forward
27:00 - Adding dependencies to Kubernetes
29:00 - Improving performance with a .dockerignore
51:15 - Deploying dependencies with Helm
1:02:00 - Looking at the available build-in functions

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🌎 Links

Dan Bentley - https://twitter.com/dbentley
Ellen Korbes - https://twitter.com/ellenkorbes
Tilt - https://tilt.dev/

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