Kardinal is a framework for creating extremely lightweight development environments within a shared Kubernetes cluster. We’re excited to introduce Kardinal, an open-source tool that’s designed to…

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Kardinal is an open-source framework for creating lightweight, ephemeral development environments within a Kubernetes cluster. It optimizes resource usage by deploying only necessary services for testing and development, employing 'flows' to manage these environments dynamically. Kardinal offers various flow types for different development needs, features a plugin system for state management, and includes a visual dashboard for cluster management. Installation is straightforward, requiring Kubernetes with Istio, and Kardinal provides significant cost savings by minimizing resource duplication.

Building the lightest-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments

Kardinal manager + Kardinal kontrol (control plane)

<p>Reminds me kmirror, which is really different but tries also to solve the struggling of having infinite envs… By kind of pro ting traffic almost anywhere in a stack iirc.</p>
