kubefwd (Kube Forward)
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Develop Locally, Connect to Kubernetes
kubefwd enables developers to work on their local machine while seamlessly accessing services running in a Kubernetes cluster. If you're building a new API that needs to connect to a database at db:5432, an auth service at auth:443, and a cache at redis:6379, all running in your development cluster, kubefwd makes them available locally by their service names, exactly as they would appear in-cluster. No environment-specific configuration, no local service setup, no Docker Compose files. Just run kubefwd and your application's existing connection strings work.
This is the essential use case: reduce or eliminate environment-specific connection setup and configurations during local development. Your code uses http://api-gateway:8080 in production? It works the same way on your laptop with kubefwd.
Bulk Kubernetes port forwarding with an interactive TUI, unique IPs per service, and automatic reconnection.
