How to Develop and Debug Ruby Applications in Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source project for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containers. It has rapidly become the standard to run production workloads and the community around it is just great!But Kubernetes is not designed for developers. The typical development workflow looks like this: write code, build a Docker image, push it to the registry, redeploy, validate your changes and repeat. This flow is not only slow, but it also prevents us from benefiting from standard features of Ruby tools such as hot reloaders or debuggers.Okteto was created to solve this problem. On this blog post, we will show you how Okteto improves the developer experience in Kubernetes for Ruby developers. You will be able to take full advantage of using an instant development environment, dependency caching, hot-reloading and even the Ruby debugger while developing your application directly in Kubernetes.