Earlier this week, Microsoft released Bridge to Kubernetes, a Visual Studio extension that allows developers to write, test and debug microservice code locally while consuming dependencies from a Kubernetes environment. The purpose of this extension is to simplify microservices development by eliminating the need for extra assets such as a Dockerfile or Kubernetes manifests.

Bridge to Kubernetes (formerly known as Local Process with Kubernetes) is an iterative development tool offered as extensions for Visual Studio and VS Code aimed at simplifying the development of microservices. According to Microsoft’s official documentation:

Bridge to Kubernetes allows you to run and debug code on your development computer while still connected to your Kubernetes cluster with the rest of your application or services. […] It allows you to quickly test and develop your service in the context of the full application without creating any Docker or Kubernetes configuration.

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