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Tilt User Guide

Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev

Modern apps are made of too many services. They’re everywhere and in constant communication.

Tilt powers multi-service development and makes sure they behave! Run tilt up to work in a complete dev environment configured for your team.

Tilt automates all the steps from a code change to a new process: watching files, building container images, and bringing your environment up-to-date. Think docker build && kubectl apply or docker-compose up .

Watch: Tilt in Two Minutes

Install Tilt

Installing the tilt binary is a one-step command.

macOS/Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tilt-dev/tilt/master/scripts/install.sh | bash

Windows

iex (( new-object net.webclient ) .DownloadString ( 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tilt-dev/tilt/master/scripts/install.ps1' ))

For specific package managers (Homebrew, Scoop, Conda, asdf), see the Installation Guide.

Run Tilt

New to Tilt? Our tutorial will get you started.

Configuring a Service? We have best practice guides for HTML, NodeJS, Python, Go, Java, and C#.

Optimizing a Tiltfile? Search for the function you need in our complete API reference.

Don’t Tilt Alone, Take This

Are you seeing an error from a server that you don’t even work on?

With Tilt Cloud, create web-based interactive reproductions of your local cluster’s state.

Save and share a snapshot with your team so that they can dig into the problem later. A snapshot lets you explore the status of running services, errors, logs, and more.

Community

Questions and feedback: Join the Kubernetes slack and find us in the #tilt channel. Or file an issue.

Contribute: Tilt is open source, developed on GitHub. Check out our contribution guidelines.

Follow along: @tilt_dev on Twitter. Updates and announcements on the Tilt blog.

Help us make Tilt even better: Tilt sends anonymized usage data, so we can improve Tilt on every platform. Details in “What does Tilt send?”.

We expect everyone in our community (users, contributors, and employees alike) to abide by our Code of Conduct.