{"id":74187,"title":"Developer Environments built for Kubernetes","tagline":"Signadot helps developers building microservices ship features fast","body":"**tl;dr**: If you’re running microservices, you can now use Signadot to help developers ship features faster using lightweight dev environments. These environments spin up in seconds within a Kubernetes cluster **that you run** and scale well across hundreds of developers and microservices without incurring large infrastructure costs or maintenance burdens. These environments are built on top of “Sandboxes”, a new approach that is used in companies like [**Uber**](https://www.uber.com/blog/simplifying-developer-testing-through-slate/) and [**Lyft**](https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-3-extending-our-envoy-mesh-with-staging-fdaafafca82f) and we’re excited to make that available to everyone.\n\nWe launched about a year ago, with a focus on preview \u0026 test environments in Kubernetes. With our latest update, we’re adding the following new capabilities:\n\n* Developers can now run the **dev version of a microservice on their laptop** and seamlessly connect it to a shared Kubernetes cluster and start testing as though the whole application were running locally. They get 10x faster feedback by testing their changes in a live Kubernetes environment during active development. \n* Multiple such dev environments can be combined together to **test different microservices with each other** as they're being developed. This means developers can collaborate and get a feature spanning different microservices working end-to-end long before their code gets merged or hits a staging/production environment.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\nJust as before, we use request routing (using a Service Mesh like [**Istio**](https://istio.io/) or a sidecar-based system that we built) to isolate these environments from one another in a shared Kubernetes cluster.\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/f5efe69b-ed3c-4306-af3e-c5d757877d7a.png?auto=compress\u0026codec=mozjpeg\u0026cs=strip\u0026auto=format\u0026fit=max)\n\nRead more about our launch [**here**](https://www.signadot.com/blog/bridging-the-gap-local-testing-in-shared-kubernetes-clusters), or watch a video of how teams use these dev environments here: [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUmPJTdwm0**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUmPJTdwm0\\*\\*)\n\n### **How do I get access**\n\nJust sign up using [**https://www.signadot.com/signup**](https://www.signadot.com/signup\\*\\*) and try one of our [**quickstart**](https://www.signadot.com/docs/quickstart) guides. Feedback is much appreciated!","slug":"JIZ-developer-environments-built-for-kubernetes","created_at":"2023-08-17T16:06:42.169Z","updated_at":"2026-04-29T03:27:01.479Z","total_vote_count":5,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JIZ-developer-environments-built-for-kubernetes","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":13179,"name":"Signadot","slug":"signadot","url":"https://www.signadot.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/768c0b0d1a92b7adab11c2cc4c95cefa19ffdf27.png","batch":"Winter 2020","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","Kubernetes"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/13179"}}