Getting Started With Tilt

Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev

Modern apps are made of too many services. They’re everywhere and in constant communication.

Tilt powers microservice development and makes sure they behave! Run tilt up to work in a complete dev environment configured for your team.

Tilt automates all the steps from a code change to a new process: watching files, building container images, and bringing your environment up-to-date. Think docker build && kubectl apply or docker-compose up.

Get Tilt

Installing the tilt binary is a one-step command.

macOS/Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tilt-dev/tilt/master/scripts/install.sh | bash

Windows

iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tilt-dev/tilt/master/scripts/install.ps1'))

Finding the right manual

Completely new to Tilt?
Watch our two minute explanation video and browse through FAQs about Tilt.
Then head over to our tutorial to run Tilt yourself for the very first time!

Setting up Tilt for existing services?
We have best practice guides for:

Optimizing your Tiltfile?
Search for the function you need in our API reference.

Watch: Tilt in Two Minutes

Community

Questions: Join the Kubernetes slack and find us in the #tilt channel. Or file an issue. For code snippets of Tiltfile functionality shared by the Tilt community, check out Tilt Extensions.

Contribute: Check out our guidelines to contribute to Tilt’s source code. To extend the capabilities of Tilt via new Tiltfile functionality, read more about Extensions.

Follow along: @tilt_dev on Twitter. For updates and announcements, follow the blog or subscribe to the newsletter.

Help us make Tilt even better: Tilt sends anonymized usage data, so we can improve Tilt on every platform. Details in “What does Tilt send?”. If you find a security issue in Tilt, see our security policy.

We expect everyone in our community (users, contributors, followers, and employees alike) to abide by our Code of Conduct.