title: How to connect a local service being developed to a hosted service mesh?
body: <p>I currently have a hosted (GCP) microservice environment that is under development. When working on a service I currently run the environment locally. I run all the services that the service I am working on needs to communicate to.</p>
  <p>This provides a bad developer experience because:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>I have to spin up every service; there can be a lot</li>
  <li>running so many services can use a lot of my system resources</li>
  <li>If any of those services need a DB, I have to set that up too</li>
  </ul>
  <p>I'm looking for a soution to this. Idealy, I will run just the single service locally and connect to the rest of the services in the hosted environment.</p>
  <p>Do any of the popular service meshes offer this as an option? I'm looking at Istio and Kuma primarily. Are there any alternatives solutions that come to mind?</p>