There are advantages to using minikube for local development if you are interested in replicating and testing the whole flow. I think these are most important f

There are advantages to using minikube for local development if you are interested in replicating and testing the whole flow. I think these are most important for small teams of 1-5 people where everyone needs to understand the whole infrastructure stack and regularly performs changes down to the kubernetes resources. That said, I've found that for bigger teams where you have a few people concerned with keeping k8s stable, and most people developing the actual application logic, docker-compose is still the most no-frills-easy-to-understand option for local development.