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Docker for Mac's builtin Kubernetes cluster keeps getting better. These days (as of a year or so ago?) if you create a LoadBalancer Service it will wire up the port forward to your Mac's localhost, which is really nice. If you set up a local CA cert (minica makes this easy) and add an entry in your hosts file like "127.0.0.1 localhost.myhost.com", you can actually get full HTTPS to your development pod, using a production-like LoadBalancer Service setup.

I haven't tried microk8s, does it do full Service proxying to localhost? I did try Minikube a few years back and the Service proxying wasn't implemented yet.

I'm a big fan of fully replicating the production-like environment (including TLS) in your dev setup, at least for iterating on k8s-layer config changes; taking the cycle time for k8s changes down to seconds makes for a very pleasant development experience.