Telepresence mainly tunnels traffic from existing services within Kubernetes namespaces.

Kloudlite, on the other hand, orchestrates environments and managed services, connecting them to workspaces without exposing Kubernetes APIs to the end user.

From a networking perspective, Kloudlite offers technical advantages. It operates at OSI Layers 3 and 4 using a WireGuard network, while Telepresence functions primarily at Layer 7 and partly at Layer 4 using application proxies. Because Kloudlite works at Layer 3, it provides a higher level of abstraction for connecting services and devices.

You can link multiple clusters—including your local machine—within your team. All environments and services managed by Kloudlite become part of the same WireGuard network.

For example, you can create a shared database in a remote cloud cluster, clone environments and apps to a local cluster, and start development. Another developer on a different machine can easily switch to your environment and access the same services, enabling seamless collaboration. Since Kloudlite uses a WireGuard network, any device with a WireGuard client can connect to access these services.