Tilt
Define your microservices development environment as code with live updates and smart rebuilds.
Why consider Tilt?
Tilt is a multi-service development tool that configures your microservice dev environment as code. It watches source files, rebuilds container layers on the fly, and provides a web dashboard for service health.
Learn Tilt by building
Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.
In this guide3 sections
Overview of Tilt
Tilt solves the microservices local development problem. Instead of running 15 manual Docker Compose commands or pushing changes to remote clusters blindly, Tilt uses a Python-based Tiltfile to build, run, and live-update services in Kubernetes.
Creating a Tiltfile
In your project root, create a Tiltfile:
docker_build('example-image', '.')k8s_yaml('k8s.yaml')k8s_forward('example-service', 8080)Launching Tilt
Start Tilt from the terminal:
tilt upTilt launches an interactive browser dashboard on http://localhost:10350 showing container build logs, pod statuses, and error traces in real-time.
Tilt is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
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