[juvoly]

Does your apple laptop run Linux or MacOS? Do you run Kubernetes locally or only when network permits? What was the reason for targeting Linux rather than MacOS? And what in this context is the value add of using Kubernetes for your development?

[hosh]

I build production Kubernetes and cloud infra for work. When I run Kubernetes locally, it is because I am developing operators or manifests for application workloads. Kubernetes is not the “value add” for my dev workflow, it is literally what I am developing.

I have run Linux laptops before. After running it for five years, I came to the conclusion that it did not make a good laptop for my use-case. Poor suspend-resume support, poor wireless networking support means I can not just pick and go. (And no one has yet to replicate Apple’s trackpad experience). So yes, I run Apple laptop with MacOS and use my TUI tools, sometimes with Linux running in an VM, sometime remotely to a full headless VM with my full dev suite via mosh because I use cli and TUI for dev.

Your turn. You still have not defined “poor man’s Linux”.