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Official website: https://tilt.dev

Install Tilt

Follow the official get started guide: https://docs.tilt.dev/

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tilt-dev/tilt/master/scripts/install.sh | bash

Create a demo project and enable the live updates

Explain the Tiltfile

# Note: The inline comment might break the tilt processing
load('ext://restart_process', 'docker_build_with_restart')

docker_build_with_restart(
  'example-go-image', # The image name to be built
  '.',
  dockerfile='deployments/Dockerfile',
  # Above is similar to "docker build -f deployments/Dockerfile -t example-go-image --rm=true ."

  entrypoint=['tilt-dev'], # Tells tilt what command to re-execute
  live_update=[
    sync('./web', '/app/web'),
    # sync ./web dir to container /app/web, so that whenever there are changes in web dir on local, it will trigger the
    # build.
  ],
)

# Apply K8S YAML
k8s_yaml('deployments/deployment.yaml')
# Port forwarding
k8s_resource('example-go', port_forwards=8000) # example-go is the deployment name

Test it out