The idea is that you have a dev cluster _per developer_. I've ran with something similar way back working for a certain notable Perl shop way before k8s/Docker

The idea is that you have a dev cluster _per developer_. I've ran with something similar way back working for a certain notable Perl shop way before k8s/Docker became popular, and I have to say it has a lot going for it, especially for more complex setups and more annoying database stuff. It was an (on-demand one-click provisioned) _VM_ per service per dev, though, so the biggest annoyance (no code reload, slow fs sync) was nullified by popular preference for either Vim or Emacs — with my current preference for VS Code I'd probably be annoyed by it. Also it's a bit expensive, I guess, but you can stuff a lot of VMs into a single big server.