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Effortless Cloud-Native App Development Using Skaffold

By : Ashish Choudhary
Book Image

Effortless Cloud-Native App Development Using Skaffold

By: Ashish Choudhary

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, drastically improving how we deploy and manage cloud-native apps. Although it has simplified the lives of support professionals, we cannot say the same for developers who need to be equipped with better tools to increase productivity. An automated workflow that solves a wide variety of problems that every developer faces can make all the difference! Enter Skaffold – a command-line tool that automates the build, push, and deploy steps for Kubernetes applications. This book is divided into three parts, starting with common challenges encountered by developers in building apps with Kubernetes. The second part covers Skaffold features, its architecture, supported container image builders, and more. In the last part, you'll focus on practical implementation, learning how to deploy Spring Boot apps to cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Skaffold. You'll also create CI/CD pipelines for your cloud-native apps with Skaffold. Although the examples covered in this book are written in Java and Spring Boot, the techniques can be applied to apps built using other technologies too. By the end of this Skaffold book, you'll develop skills that will help accelerate your inner development loop and be able to build and deploy your apps to the Kubernetes cluster with Skaffold.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Kubernetes Nightmare – Skaffold to the Rescue
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Section 2: Getting Started with Skaffold
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Section 3: Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Spring Boot Applications with Skaffold

Summary

In this chapter, we have covered many topics, such as what a typical inner development loop is and its importance. We have also discussed how both the inner and outer development loops are different, and then we explored whether the CI/CD process can act as a replacement for the inner development loop.

We then discussed the steps involved in the traditional application development inner loop and we covered tools such as Spring Developer Tools and JRebel, which make the application development a lot easier. To explain this further, we created a simple Spring Boot web MVC application. Finally, in the last section, we covered the container-native application development inner loop. We also covered the steps involved in container-native application development.

In this chapter, the focus was on introducing you to concepts such as inner and outer development. You can use Spring Boot Developer Tools and JRebel to accelerate/automate your traditional application development life cycle.

In the next chapter, we will cover the problems a developer faces while developing an application with Kubernetes.