Helm Summit 2019

A key aspect of a microservice architecture is to make sure individual services work in isolation. But as a developer its also important to make sure the service works in the full system. Providing developers a way to run a multi-service environment on their own machine is challenging.

In trying to overcome this problem, we've looked for a way for engineers to be able to test pre-production code. Making use of Helm charts and defaulting to production configuration gets us part way there. Also important is being able to extend upon tools like Telepresence/Ksync for debugging in k8s. But while these great tools are available, what is lacking is the "easy to use", single command that gives a developer their own self-contained system. We're going to discuss Armador, an open source solution that makes installing multiple Helm charts a breeze.