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By Default, Don't Use Tilt Live Update

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By default, don’t use tilt live update.

At first glance, it sounds like a good idea, but eventually, all the things you set up in the live update won’t be done in the production environment. That will cause a “works on my machine syndrome” hard to debug and moving in the opposite direction of the idea of using the live update in the first place.

So I suggest to use other ways to make the code. update. repeat. loop faster, like the local docker registry, or the kubectl build extension. And only if those don’t manage to provide good enough loop time, consider using live updates.

Remember that live update will always make things faster. This is why it is so tempting. But you definitely want to find a good compromise between “easy to maintain” and “fast development”.

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