Angular 8 came with a big changelog of features, deprecations, and fixes. A major change was the way Angular lazy loads its components. The standard method for that (loadChildren) stopped accepting a string parameter and switched to an import function. For a particular case we had, this change gave us some food for thought and opened a lot of possibilities.
The year is 2019 so everyone and their grandparents are running their sophisticated microservice solutions on Kubernetes. Same as many, we run our Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2. Striving to have a dev and prod environments as similar as possible, we run a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a Docker-For-Mac VM on our OSX based dev stations. All this has it’s pros and cons, which is a completely separate discussion. We recently hit a minor nuisance – for a troubleshooting session we needed to run a GUI tool from inside the isolated Kubernetes network. If you want to find a few possible solutions to this (probably) common case, please read on.
As developers and engineers we’re blessed with having to play around with (almost) completely deterministic systems. Even so, debugging them can often become overwhelming and push us to reconsider what we know or understand. We’ll try to showcase a particular troubleshooting adventure we recently endured and highlight what mistakes we did and how we overcame the despair.
