So, as an experiment I've integrated kim with tilt using a kind backend. This works perfectly on ubuntu, and has allowed us to shave a pretty hefty chunk off build times (25 to 40%) by avoiding the image registry one would normally need for a tilt / kind / docker project.
However, on osx using kind and docker-desktop-for-mac, kim fails with the error:
level=fatal msg="failed to get status: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = \"transport: Error while dialing dial tcp 172.24.0.2:1234: i/o timeout\""
I know Smarter automatic-ish bootstrap for non-k3s installations (think EKS support) is on the roadmap, and I assume this would fall into that bucket.
It appears to install the infrastructure needed by kim correctly, but when it comes to actually interacting with it - builds, kim image ls, etc, it fails with the error above. Any suggestions about how to get beyond this error are very welcome!