mirrord

Why we included this project

The gap between what runs on a laptop and what is actually deployed is where cloud-native debugging usually stalls. mirrord closes it by letting a local process, or a coding agent's sandbox, behave as if it were a pod in a live Kubernetes cluster, picking up the real environment variables, DNS, and traffic without a deployment or a VPN. While you write, you can read actual service responses, queue contents, and database state, then run your code against those same live services to confirm it works end to end. It ships as a VS Code extension, an IntelliJ plugin, and a CLI, and it behaves the same whether the code is written by a person or by an agent like Claude Code or Cursor. For anyone building against Kubernetes, that is deploy-like feedback in seconds, without disrupting the cluster for anyone else.