[carlreid]

I have been setting up something recently using k3s (more specifically k3d for k3s in Docker) and it seems great so far. I'm having to use k3d since I'm not in Linux but as soon as WSL2 is available then I can even get rid of the Docker part I think.

I like the idea of having a developer be able to play entirely with their own local infrastructure to get as close to production as possible.

A hosted service will definitely make this less painful but once you get up to speed with k3s then I doubt there is anything faster than using it.

[BenElgar]

There are definitely some use cases where having a local-to-your-machine development environment is more suitable but, as you say, Krucible is easier to set up and comes with features that just running k3d doesn't, like snapshots. Our experience is that ensuring that developers are all running in the same environment is pretty valuable by itself.