Rapid microservices development with Kubernetes and Signadot

Peter Jausovec demonstrates how to use Signadot sandboxes to test microservices locally against dependencies in a shared Kubernetes cluster.

While developing microservices locally is possible, running and testing them in a production-like Kubernetes environment is not easy. A typical developer workflow or inner loop when developing services in Kubernetes can significantly slow you down - from building a Docker image, pushing it, restarting the deployments, and testing the changes in a shared cluster. And all that, assuming you manage to keep the shared cluster up to date! In this video, I'll look at a tool called Signadot. Signadot introduces a concept of "sandboxes" that allow you to considerably shorten your developer workflow and go from minutes to mere seconds! The sandbox concept will enable you to build and run a service locally using the upstream and downstream dependencies inside a shared cluster. Check out the video for a practical demo that shows you how to set everything up and start developing with Signadot. #Signadot #Kubernetes #microservices #istio If you like the video, consider subscribing: youtube.com/c/peterjausovec/join ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Resources ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▶ Signadot: signadot.com ▶ Read the article: learncloudnative.com/blog/2023-10-26-signadot ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Connect with me ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▶ Newsletter: learncloudnative.com/newsletter ▶ Twitter: twitter.com/pjausovec ▶ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pjausovec/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Contents ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:42 - Inner loop/development workflow 02:00 - How about running your service locally? 02:47 - Idea: using Istio to debug apps in Kubernetes 03:26 - Overview of Signadot and sandboxes 04:10 - DEMO: Introduction 04:50 - DEMO: Deploying the sample workloads and going through the inner loop 06:46 - DEMO: Connecting a cluster (Signadot) 07:15 - DEMO: Deploying Signadot operator 07:45 - DEMO: signadot CLI configuration 08:40 - DEMO: Using CLI to connect to the cluster 10:00 - DEMO: Sandbox configuration 11:36 - DEMO: Looking into VirtualService and ServiceEntry configuration 13:42 - Context propagation 14:20 - DEMO: Signadot in action! 16:13 - Signadot use cases 16:49 - Resource plugins 17:40 - Route groups 18:49 - Wrap up