kubefwd

kubefwd (Kube Forward) lets developers work on their own machine while reaching services that run in a Kubernetes cluster. The README's example: if you are building an API that needs a database at db:5432, kubefwd makes that name work locally, so code that uses http://api-gateway:8080 in production behaves the same on your laptop and environment-specific connection setup disappears.

It discovers services in your namespace, gives each a unique loopback IP, updates /etc/hosts with the service names and sets up port forwards through the Kubernetes API, so `curl http://api-service:8080` or `mysql -h database -P 3306` work as in the cluster. Features include an interactive TUI with traffic metrics, a unique 127.x.x.x address per service, auto-reconnect when pods restart, bulk forwarding of a whole namespace in one command, live traffic and HTTP monitoring, pod log streaming, a REST API and MCP support for Claude Code and Cursor. It installs with Homebrew, packages for Linux, winget or Scoop on Windows, or Docker, and is Apache-2.0 licensed. Because it edits /etc/hosts and binds loopback addresses, it is run with elevated privileges (the README uses `sudo -E kubefwd svc -n my-namespace --tui`).