we run everything under systemd managed services instead of k8s and deploy via ansible playbooks at our company, and we similarly use tmuxinator to spin up all the backend api, search engine, databases like qdrant, meilisearch, etc and frontend services all in dev mode with all the terminals auto opening in window panes inside a tmux shell.

It really makes development in dev mode super simple and easy, and running all of the services in local dev environment is as simple as running one command, ‘tmuxinator’ at root of our monorepo and boom everything is up.

Monorepo truly outcompete individual repos for almost all projects, its far more pleasurable ever since I changed to this method of development.