Develop

This section covers the inner development loop on KubeStack+ — writing code locally, iterating against a real cluster, debugging, and following production-ready practices.

How it works

You run your application locally with Tilt, which builds and redeploys your container on every code change directly into your sandbox namespace on the cluster. You debug against live cluster traffic with mirrord instead of recreating production conditions on your laptop. The full local-to-cluster loop is set up once and then stays out of your way.

What you do

Start with the Inner Loop tutorial series — twenty-plus steps that walk through preparing your environment, containerising your app, deploying to your sandbox, exposing it, monitoring it, and scaling it. The Tilt zero-to-hero guide is the condensed end-to-end version.

For deeper context before you start, read Inner vs outer loop and Local development workflow. When you are ready to ship outside the inner loop, continue to Deploy for the outer-loop / GitOps delivery path.

Next step

Continue to Prepare the local environment to set up Tilt and your sandbox.