Telepresence Business vs. OSS
Widely-adopted solution for fast local development of Kubernetes applications
Telepresence Business
A widely adopted development tool for fast local development of Kubernetes applications. Built on the CNCF Telepresence project, with extended features to support teams of developers and increase both fast feedback and collaboration. Telepresence Business includes access to cloud dashboards, auditing capability, and increased security configuration for platform teams. Includes mission-critical support with an SLA for your team.
Telepresence OSS
An open source tool that allows individual Kubernetes developers to test and debug cloud native applications faster. Built to speed up the inner dev loop with containers, allow the continued usage of local debugging tools (IDE, debugger, etc.), and seamlessly join remote-to-local environments for fast feedback. Created by Ambassador Labs and is now a CNCF Sandbox project.
Telepresence Business compared to Telepresence OSS
| Feature | Telepresence Business | Telepresence OSS |
|---|---|---|
| Team mode: enable easy sharing of cloud development environment and multi-user local-to-remote collaboration with personal intercepts | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Intercept specification (CRDs, YAML): supports automation by platform engineers and reuse by devs | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Saved intercepts: Enable Telepresence configuration to be easily shared and used by non K8s-experts | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Commercial support with guaranteed SLA | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Collaborative development with secure and sharable “preview URLs’ that show work-in-progress | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Ambassador Cloud dashboard, providing additional collaboration, auditing, and security features | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS unavailable |
| Use your preferred IDE and tools for development | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS available |
| Instant feedback loop for local code changes | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS available |
| Fast, easy development and debugging with local applications and remote K8s clusters | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS available |
| Community support (best effort) | Telepresence Business available | Telepresence OSS available |
Telepresence OSS
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Telepresence is an amazing dev tool that unlocks more dev capacity by reducing environment setup overhead and enables devs to fully leverage the power of k8s and the cloud.
Xavier Portilla Edo
Infrastructure Engineer at Voiceflow