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+# Local Dev Environment
+
+TL;DR: Rootless Docker, Minikube and Tilt.
+
+Run, **from the root** of the repository:
+```shell
+tilt up -f dev/Tiltfile
+```
+
+# Setting up a local development environment
+
+For this development environment, we will use:
+- Rootless Docker
+- Minikube
+- Tilt
+
+See the references at the end for extra documentation and information.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> The commands bellow perform a few changes to your system.
+> If you don't feel comfortable running them as is, check the official
+> documentation and follow the steps there instead.
+
+## Rootless Docker
+
+We assume you already have Docker installed. If not, do it now.
+
+1. Disable regular docker, cleanup any old images and containers first:
+```shell
+sudo docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
+sudo docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
+sudo docker system prune -a
+sudo systemctl disable --now docker docker.socket
+```
+
+2. Install rootless docker.
+
+On Ubuntu and similar, you can install the docker-ce-rootless-extras package:
+```shell
+sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce-rootless-extras
+```
+
+On Arch and similar, install the docker-rootless-extras package from the AUR:
+```shell
+sudo yay -Syu docker-rootless-extras
+```
+
+3. Make sure your user can impersonate 65536 UIDs and GIDs:
+
+The numbers below may need to be adjusted if other users in this system already
+have this setup:
+```shell
+sudo usermod --add-subuids 100000-165535 --add-subgids 100000-165535 "$USER"
+```
+
+4. Allow unprivileged user namespace cloning:
+
+```shell
+sudo sh -c "echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/80-rootless-docker.conf"
+sudo sysctl --system
+```
+
+5. Make systemd delegate cpu and cpuset to users (only io memory pids are
+enabled by default):
+
+```shell
+sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/user@.service.d/
+sudo cat > /etc/systemd/system/user@.service.d/delegate.conf <<EOF
+[Service]
+Delegate=cpu cpuset io memory pids
+EOF
+sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+```
+
+6. Enable rootless docker by default:
+
+```shell
+systemctl --user enable --now docker.socket
+```
+
+7. Create a rootless docker context and use it:
+
+```
+docker context create rootless --docker "host=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/docker.sock"
+docker context use rootless
+```
+
+## Optional build performance for Arch systems
+
+Enable native overlay diff engine to speed up image builds:
+
+```
+sudo sh -c "echo 'options overlay metacopy=off redirect_dir=off' > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-overlay-redirect-dir.conf"
+```
+
+## Minikube
+
+Install minikube, as normal.
+
+As a workaroud for a [networking issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/16962),
+allow ipv4 forwarding. This step may not be necessary if the issue is fixed:
+
+```shell
+sudo sh -c "echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/85-minikube-ipv4-fix.conf"
+```
+
+**Reboot!**
+
+After finishing this setup, the author still had a few networking issues that
+were solved by rebooting, even after reloading parametrs with `sysctl`.
+
+Then, launch minikube specifying the container runtime "containerd":
+
+```
+minikube start --driver=docker --container-runtime=containerd
+```
+
+
+Tilt requires a local registry, fortunately we can use Minikube's addon:
+```sh
+minikube addons enable registry
+```
+
+This exposes a local registry in `localhost:32770` in your host, and
+`localhost:5000` from inside minikube itself.
+
+## Tilt
+
+Install it normally, and then run, **from the root of this repository**:
+```
+tilt up -f dev/Tiltfile
+```
+
+A local instance of pod-director will be available in the pod-director
+namespace. Check the [values-tilt.yaml](./values-tilt.yaml) file for
+extra configurations for testing and validation.
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+load('ext://helm_resource', 'helm_resource')
+load('ext://namespace', 'namespace_create')
+
+default_registry('localhost:32770', host_from_cluster='localhost:5000')
+
+ROOT_DIR = '..'
+
+docker_build(
+  ref='pod-director',
+  context=ROOT_DIR,
+  dockerfile='%s/dev/debug.Containerfile' % ROOT_DIR
+)
+
+helm_resource(
+  name='pod-director',
+  chart='%s/charts/pod-director' % ROOT_DIR,
+  release_name='pod-director',
+  namespace='pod-director',
+  image_deps=['pod-director'],
+  image_keys=[('image.registry', 'image.repository', 'image.tag')],
+  flags=['--create-namespace', '--values=%s/dev/values-tilt.yaml' % ROOT_DIR]
+)
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+FROM rust:1.74.0-alpine3.18 as builder
+
+WORKDIR /build
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache musl-dev=1.2.4-r2
+
+COPY .cargo .
+COPY Cargo* ./
+
+RUN mkdir -p src && \
+    touch src/lib.rs && \
+    cargo build --locked --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+
+COPY src src/
+
+RUN cargo build --locked --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+
+FROM alpine:3.18.4
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache tini=0.19.0-r1
+
+COPY --from=builder /build/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/debug/pod-director .
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["tini", "--"]
+CMD ["./pod-director"]
diff --git a/dev/values-tilt.yaml b/dev/values-tilt.yaml
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+config:
+  groups:
+    test:
+      nodeSelector:
+        test-label: test-value