Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Telepresence was accepted to CNCF on May 15, 2018 and is at the Sandbox project maturity level.
Recent Telepresence news

Evolving CNCF’s telepresence: adopting a TUN device to deliver stability and portability
February 16, 2023Debugging Kubernetes Applications on the Fly
October 23, 2020Latest tweets from Telepresence
Docs are hugely important for us as open source projects. So if you want to directly impact the trajectory of our business please reach out! https://t.co/aYEHZnzBrt
Some useful and promising #Kubernetes🕸️ projects to follow 👇
🔹 @submarinerio - multicluster direct networking
🔹 @shipwrightio - building container images
🔹 @microcksio - testing API and messaging
🔹 @telepresenceio - development tool
🔹 @k0sproject - new Kubernetes distro
A bunch of interesting bug fixes and new features in @telepresenceio 2.3.2 and 2.3.1.
A useful overview by @_DonnyYung at @ambassadorlabs in the Telepresence "meet the maintainers" session
Today, I needed to intercept traffic sent to the application running on Kubernetes and forward it to the local dev instance (https://t.co/7RPy00eJeX). 👇
I finally have the opportunity to see how a great tool is Telepresence (@telepresenceio).
🙏 to @Xavidop from @VoiceflowHQ for your first contribution to @ambassadorlabs Telepresence 2! 🏆https://t.co/fDiAYFYl53
In our latest blog diving into the @CloudNativeFdn Sandbox projects we're looking at @telepresenceio — Telepresence 2.0 Showcase: Open Source Development Workflows — https://t.co/LFawkshfi7 #Kubernetes #CloudNative #OpenSource
Belated congratulations to @telepresenceio on Telepresence 2! Lots of neat ideas around network intercepts to help devs experiment with changes in-cluster. https://t.co/awEWY1ilUG
Thoroughly enjoyed @LeanderReimer's #CloudK8Summit talk about @kubernetesio and cloud native devex. So many great tools to check out:
- @buildpacks_io
- https://t.co/EJxZb3G9KN
- @skaffolddev
- @tilt_dev
Obviously we're biased, but we think @telepresenceio is pretty cool, too!