This is part two of a series by Linkerd Ambassador Chris Campbell exploring how to bridge the gap between development and production by using Linkerd, Tilt, and Ingress-Nginx to create a robust environment in which you can develop using your real production infrastructure.
In Part 1 of this series, we built a simple microservices demo with Linkerd on a local Kubernetes cluster using Tilt. Our demo consists of three services (foo, bar, and baz) that communicate via HTTP REST. In this second part, we’ll extend our demo to support gRPC communication and explore some of Linkerd’s helpful features for managing gRPC services.