Developer Experience On Kubernertes

Part I: The Inner Development Loop

• Chapter 1 - Crafting Experiences for Cloud Native Development
  • Tutorials:
    • Clone source code, kind create , kubectl apply -f k8s/ (prove that it sucks)
• Chapter 2 - Inner Loop: Development Environments
  • Tutorials:
    • DevContainers development environment: allow a developer to start working on a simple application (UI + REST Endpoints) with DevPod
    • Changing the application lifecycle Tools (Tilt, Skaffold, ko, Spring Boot / Quarkus plugins)
    • Application Infrastructure / Dependencies Tools (docker-compose, operators for Kubernetes)
• Chapter 3 - Inner Loop: Containers and Kubernetes
  • Integration Tests as part of developers workflows (Scripts, TestContainers, Dagger)
    • Running with Kubernetes (Microcks)
  • Developer's and Kubernetes
    • Visibility with Headlamp
    • Load images local images in Kubernetes with KinD
    • Debug? Is it possible? Telepresence approach vs mirrord

Part II: Cloud Native Runtimes

• Chapter 4 - Crafting Experiences for Complex Environments
  • Frameworks, abstractions and Cloud Provider SDKs
  • Integrating with AI APIs, use case and highlight with local model
• Chapter 5 - Developer Experience: Working with Cloud Native Runtimes
  • Crosscutting concerns, architectural patterns and complex integrations with Dapr
  • Feature flagging and local development with Open Feature
• Chapter 6 - Developer Experience: Working with AI

Part III: The Path to Production