Did you know that you can ”freeze” running containers? We found out about this feature while developing a particularly handy capability for mirrord. mirrord lets developers run local code in the context of a remote Kubernetes pod. This lets them test their code in cloud conditions without going through CI and deployment. In most cases, stealing or mirroring incoming traffic from the remote pod to the local process is good enough. However, when you have applications that consume tasks and do more...