A round-up of our latest trolling and feature announcements.

As of Tilt v0.20.9, you can now set a default namespace on tilt up. Instead of using the default namespace set in your local kubernetes config, Tilt can now use a command line-specified namespace to start resources. This is the first step in an effort to give Tilt users greater...

Local K8s dev, GitOps, and when to use them together

There has been a lot happening under the hood recently, and we're excited to introduce the first step towards enhanced Tilt dashboard customization!

Happy June Tilt Users! This month’s newsletter contains an invitation to get help with onboarding, a grab-bag of content goodness and an introduction to our newest Tilters! Introducing Tilt Liftoff Tilt Liftoff is a new program we’re kicking off designed to help you kick-off a Tilt rollout to your team....

A long time ago, I was cleaning out my work desk. I found a hand-written note. I laughed out loud at what it said. I don’t remember the exact words. But I remember the sentiment: Dear Andy Bons, Thank you for showing me how to use console.log() Brian Kernighan1 This...

entr stands for Event Notify Test Runner. It’s a command line tool that makes it easy to re-run tests and live reload servers. You give entr: 1) A list of files 2) A command to run entr listens to those files and restarts the command when they change. You can...

I’ve been writing Makefiles almost two decades. And I still struggle to debug two classic problems: I changed a file. Why didn’t Make rebuild the stuff that depends on it? Nothing changed. Make rebuilt all my stuff anyway. Why didn’t Make cache it? And it’s not just because Make is...

Tilt v0.20.0 has a weird new feature: the Tilt apiserver. Our end goal is for Tilt to expose its internal status as an API, and provide tooling on how to interact with that status to do stuff. This is a bit abstract. I’m not sure I have a pithy way...

When we first started developing Tilt, we broke ALL THE TIME. Either Kubernetes changed. Or we had a subtle misunderstanding in how the API works. Our changes would pass unit tests, but fail with a real Kubernetes cluster. I built out an integration test suite that used the latest version...

A common take on Kubernetes is that it’s very complicated. … and because it’s complicated, the configuration is very verbose. … and because there’s so much config YAML, we need big toolchains just to handle that config. I want to convince you that the arrow of blame points in the...