What is Tye?
Microsoft is continuously taking developers' feedback, and even more so after going full open source mode, when they realized the pain of Microsoft .NET developers who were building microservices-based applications, debugging, and deploying them to test and production environments. So, they set up a team to build a tool that would help simplify all of this, and hence a new tool named Tye (also referred to as Project Tye) was born.
As of November 2020, they consider this tool as experimental and not yet complete or stable. The positive part is that for us as developers, we can already start using it!
Tye is a command-line tool that supports developers, especially during the development phase, whereby the developer can easily run, test, and debug the containerized application on their local development machine without worrying about other services and dependencies in other containers or Docker, or even a container orchestrator on their machine. Additionally, it...