Start a locally run Service and route traffic to it

Question

I am wondering if it is possible to route traffic in a microservice environment to my local machine to debug a service.

I have a microservice architecture written with ASP.Net and published as a docker container. They all run on my HomeServer and communicate with each other via a REST Api (just to simplify things). Because I have so many microservices I dont want to start all of them locally in order to develop them further, instead I try to find a way to route traffic directly to my local machine when I start a service from my IDE.

My first idea was using a service discovery. But then a friend told me about using Rancher.

But before I will spend that much time, I wanted to ask if anyone else had this situation and need, or does know a solution for this

Answer 1

I recommend taking a look at mirrord:

• https://mirrord.dev
• https://mirrord.dev/docs/overview/quick-start/

For details on how it compares to Telepresence: https://metalbear.co/blog/mirrord-as-an-alternative-to-telepresence/

Answer 2

1. telepresence is what you want.

   • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/local-debugging/
   • https://www.telepresence.io/docs/latest/quick-start/

2. visual studio - extenstion - bridge to kubernetes
   This extenstion also dose what you want, but it taks very long time for startup. i don't recommend it.

Rancher is a dashborad for k8s management, not mush helpful for development and debug in local.