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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)
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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 introduced you to Skaffold and some of its commands and concepts. In the example, we have introduced you to only one Skaffold command—that is, skaffold dev. However, there are many such commands, for example, skaffold run and skaffold render, which we will cover in upcoming chapters. You have also learned how to build and deploy applications with Skaffold using commands such as skaffold dev to the local Kubernetes cluster.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Skaffold features and architectures.