Bridge to Kubernetes will be retired on April 30, 2025

[qpetraroia]

The open-source project Bridge to Kubernetes will be retired on April 30, 2025. After this date, Bridge to Kubernetes will no longer be available for download from the Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code marketplaces.

For developers looking for alternatives, the open-source community offers excellent options like mirrord and Telepresence, which provide similar functionality for debugging Kubernetes applications.

To learn more about mirrord, visit the mirrord tutorial on the AKS engineering blog.
To learn more about Telepresence, check out the Telepresence tutorial on AKS.

We, the maintainers of Bridge to Kubernetes, want to express our deepest gratitude for your support and collaboration in making Kubernetes debugging simpler. Thank you for being a part of this journey!

[Mapsfg]

I've got some issues with running telepresence on AKS.

I've got a cluster hosted on AKS, and I ran telepresence helm install to install the traffic manager. However, the helm command fails due to a default Azure Policy "container no privilege escalation" (https://www.azadvertizer.net/azpolicyadvertizer/1c6e92c9-99f0-4e55-9cf2-0c234dc48f99.html).

I don't want to add another namespace, such as "ambassador", to the policy's exclusion parameter. I won't be able to do that anyways since I don't have permissions to do so.

I believe I'd run into the same issues if I were to use mirrord since mirrord also deploys privileged pods.
Could you advise me with what to do here?

[eysi09]

I hope it's all right that I add to the list of open source alternatives. And full disclosure, I'm one of the maintainers.

But Garden (https://github.com/garden-io/garden) allows you to do something similar via code syncing.

That is, it has a "hot reload" capability that allows you to stream code changes from your laptop to a running container in a Kubernetes cluster (as opposed to taking the Telepresence / Mirrod approach).

In particular it doesn't create any resources in your cluster, you just need to be able to access it from your laptop. So if kubectl works, Garden probably will.

Apologies if this is way off topic, feel free to ignore/remove if that's the case.

I'd also be happy to explain more if anyone has questions.

[garyburgmann]

come join our fork

https://github.com/go1com/Bridge-To-Kubernetes

[stevendarby]

Is the source code for the Visual Studio 2022 extension available - and if not, would you consider making it available?

[qpetraroia]

Hi @stevendarby, the source code for the visual studio extension is not available. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[stevendarby]

@qpetraroia is there any chance of making it available? Don't worry, we won't judge the code too hard.