Cut your dev loop from hours to seconds
mirrord lets you run your microservice locally with seamless access to everything in the cloud—speeding up development, improving code quality, and reducing cloud costs.
Cloud-native development doesn’t have to be complex
Developers spend more time setting up environments than coding—only to test in conditions that don’t match production. Providing full-scale cloud environments for every developer is costly and complex.
With mirrord, developers work locally while seamlessly connected to their staging environment.
Increase dev
velocity and reduce cloud costs
mirrord removes the need for costly personal environments and long CI wait times just to test in the cloud. Instead, developers can instantly start coding against a fully functional cloud setup—allowing you to scale your team without scaling your cloud costs.
Before mirrord
After After mirrord
Expensive personal environments for each dev
One shared, cost-efficient staging setup
Long CI/CD wait times just to test in staging
Run code in staging conditions instantly
Use mocks to simulate cloud dependencies
Use real cloud traffic, disks, databases, queues
Developers avoid testing in shared environments to prevent breaking them—slowing down releases.
Test safely without deploying untested code
Want to dive into the technical details of how mirrord enables concurrent staging access?
CLI or IDE, your choice
mirrord meets your developers where they are.
Why developer teams choose
mirrord
by MetalBear
Most solutions that connect local environments to the cloud rely on complex setups, like VPNs.
mirrord simplifies the process by working directly at the level of your local process. It overrides system calls and proxies them to the cloud, requiring minimal setup and no additional integrations.
Faster startup
Up and running in 15 seconds or less.
More control over what runs where
Choose which files, env variables, and requests stay local and which run in the cloud.
No root access required
Works without extra permissions or system modifications.
Works with any cluster setup
No need to reconfigure for service meshes, VPNs, or large-scale clusters (tested on 10,000+ pods).
The mirrord
Speedrun Challenge
You can get mirrord running in minutes in any environment -- no matter how complex.
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Check out what folks have to say about using mirrord to run their code locally in cloud-like conditions.
Ship Faster,
Ship Better
No more ‘git push’ to test.
50% faster iteration cycles
Developers don’t have to redeploy to test in the cloud.
Up to 80% lower cloud costs
By eliminating redundant dev environments.
50% decrease in CI runs
Less downtime and lower cloud spend.