Can we improve support for Kubernetes as a development environment?

[regisb]

Currently, Kubernetes is mostly considered a production deployment target. But it makes sense for system administrators and platform developers to work on Kubernetes, to simulate a development environment that matches more closely with production.

There already exists many different tools (not Open edX-specific) to run dev containers on Kubernetes. An exploration of such tools in the context of Open edX was performed here: edx/edx-arch-experiments#82

• Are people interested in running k8s as a dev env? We need to talk with Open edX developers and system administrators about that.
• Can Tutor facilitate integration with existing tools? For instance, could we create a tutor-tilt plugin to integrate with tilt? If not, what changes do we need to make to the Tutor plugin API to facilitate this integration?

[regisb]

Related issue: openedx/openedx-k8s-harmony#14