kubefwd helps to enable a seamless and efficient way to develop applications and services on a local workstation. Locally develop applications that intend to interact with other services in a Kubernetes cluster. kubefwd allows applications with connection strings like http://elasticsearch:9200/ or tcp://db:3306 to communicate into the remote cluster. kubefwd can be used to reduce or eliminate the need for local environment specific connection configurations.
Developing services in a Microservices architecture presents local development challenges, especially when the service you are developing needs to interact with a mixture of other services. Microservices, like any other applications are rarely ever self-contained and often need access to databases, authentication services, and other public or private APIs. Loosely-coupled applications still have couplings, they happen on a higher layer of the application stack and often through TCP networking.
