Sounds like you should try skaffold, it has a workflow for local builds, with fast hotloading to auto-rebuild your image. It also redeploys automatically too. I

Sounds like you should try skaffold, it has a workflow for local builds, with fast hotloading to auto-rebuild your image. It also redeploys automatically too. If you're using Minikube it'll share the docker daemon so that you don't have to push anything anywhere. I find Docker for Mac to be completely fine, and Minikube can be a resource hog, but still workable if you make your resource allocations configurable (i.e. don't request 1G for each pod in your local env, even if you need to do so in prod). There is an xhyve driver for Minikube that should reduce the footprint by not requiring you to run virtualbox.