Kubernetes

At my company, we’ve been having discussions about finding the best local development environment for our engineering teams. We noticed that inconsistent development setups were slowing down our productivity. So I decided to dig deeper and research the best solutions.

In this article, I’ll share what I discovered during my investigation.

Many development teams face the same challenge: inconsistent local environments. Some developers use Docker, others prefer Minikube, and a few try connecting directly to shared clusters. The result? Everyone runs into the same frustrating issues: setups that don’t match, hours wasted on "it works on my machine" problems, and slow feedback when testing code.

This is one of those topics where everyone seems to have a slightly different view and most of them are valid. That’s the beauty of computer science: there’s rarely a single right answer. You’ve probably come across some of the many answers out there, and I won’t dive into all of them here. It’s simply too much to cover in a single article. I want to share my perspective here. For other viewpoints, you can explore online resources and read different takes on the subject.