Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

Could I use this for running the same docker compose stack multiple times in parallel? I wrote a lot of bash glue code to make this happen (without kubernetes) for integration and acceptance testing on a single server. Managing envs and networking was a pain, but mostly, I struggle to keep it up to date with infrastructure changes in my platform.

This is a personal project that im open-sourcing. Its one of those projects-that-should-exist-but-nobody-wants-to-kill-their-business.

It takes ur standard docker compose file and runs it transparently in kubernetes (k3s actually). So ur devs don't have cognitive dissonance between testing ur stack locally on ur laptop and making it work on kubernetes in production.

It is primarily meant as a dev tool on ur laptop, and as a replacement for docker compose.

I've just moved on from docker compose. Instead I have a K8s like yaml file and use podman kube play. The learning curve is pretty small in my opinion and at least it is a little closer to production.

Looks promising and really interesting to see and it's a very good idea. But when I saw the test folder however, it is completely empty. [0]

So is any of this tested?

[0] https://github.com/sandys/kappal/tree/main/test

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