Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Sangmin, maker of kforward. If you develop applications that need to talk to services inside Kubernetes, you've likely felt the pain of managing multiple kubectl port-forward commands. It's tedious, easy to mess up, and forces awkward localhost:PORT configurations in your local setup. I built kforward to solve this problem. It's a simple, lightweight Go CLI tool that runs a local HTTP proxy. You point kforward at the Kubernetes services (or a whole namespace) you need, set your system's proxy environment variables, and then your local application can access services using their actual Kubernetes DNS names (like my-service.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local). Under the hood, kforward automatically finds the right pods and manages the necessary kubectl port-forward processes for you, routing traffic seamlessly. The goal is to provide a much smoother local development experience when working with Kubernetes, reducing friction and letting you focus more on coding and less on managing tunnels. It's open-source, requires only Go and kubectl to build/run, and aims to be much simpler than heavier alternatives for this specific use case. Check out the GitHub repo for detailed usage and architecture: https://github.com/sanspareilsmy... Excited to share kforward with the Product Hunt community! I'd love to hear your thoughts, answer any questions. Let me know what you think!

kforward

Lightweight k8s proxy for local dev

Lightweight k8s proxy for local dev