What is Skaffold?
The Skaffold command-line tool simplifies the development and deployment process for Kubernetes applications, enabling developers to iterate on their source code locally and seamlessly deploy to both local and remote Kubernetes clusters. Skaffold streamlines the entire workflow, automating the building, pushing, and deploying of applications, making it an invaluable asset in both manual development and automated CI/CD pipelines
Highlights
- Continuous Development: Skaffold facilitates a streamlined development process, allowing developers to make changes to their application source code and see those changes immediately reflected in the running Kubernetes deployment
- Automated Build, Push, and Deploy: Skaffold handles the complex tasks of building container images, pushing them to a registry, and deploying the updated application to the Kubernetes cluster, automating the entire workflow
- Supports Local and Remote Kubernetes Clusters: Developers can utilize Skaffold to deploy their applications to both local and remote Kubernetes environments, providing flexibility in the development and testing process
- CI/CD Integration: Skaffold can be seamlessly integrated into a CI/CD pipeline, enabling the same automated build, push, and deploy workflow to be leveraged when transitioning applications to production.
Features
Detect changes in your source code and
Deploy regularly when saving files or run one off
Support for multiple application components.
No server-side component. No overhead to your
Image tag management. Stop worrying about
Supports existing tooling and workflows. Build