What this book covers
Chapter 1, Code, Build, Test, and Repeat - The Application Development Inner Loop, defines the inner loop of application development and its importance. It also compares the inner with the outer development loop, and covers the typical development workflows for a traditional monolith application and a container-native microservices application.
Chapter 2, Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Kubernetes – A Developer's Nightmare, explains the problems that developers face while developing cloud-native applications with Kubernetes.
Chapter 3, Skaffold – Easy-Peasy Cloud-Native Kubernetes Application Development, provides a high-level overview of Skaffold. We will also demonstrate Skaffold's basic features by building and deploying a Spring Boot application.
Chapter 4, Understanding Skaffold's Features and Architecture, explores Skaffold's features and internals by looking at its architecture, workflow, and configuration file, skaffold.yaml.
Chapter 5, Installing Skaffold and Demystifying Its Pipeline Stages, explains Skaffold installation and common CLI commands used in its different pipeline stages.
Chapter 6, Working with Skaffold Container Image Builders and Deployers, explains various tools used for building (Docker, Jib, kaniko, Buildpacks) and deploying (Helm, kubectl, kustomize) container images to Kubernetes with Skaffold.
Chapter 7, Building and Deploying a Spring Boot Application with the Cloud Code Plugin, introduces you to the Cloud Code plugin developed by Google. It explains how to build and deploy a Spring Boot application to a Kubernetes cluster using the Cloud Code plugin with an IDE such as IntelliJ.
Chapter 8, Deploying a Spring Boot Application to Google Kubernetes Engine Using Skaffold, explains how you can deploy a Spring Boot application to Google Kubernetes Engine, a managed Kubernetes service provided by Google Cloud Platform with Skaffold.
Chapter 9, Creating a Production-Ready CI/CD Pipeline with Skaffold, explains how you can create a production-ready continuous integration and deployment pipeline of a Spring Boot application using Skaffold and GitHub actions.
Chapter 10, Exploring Skaffold Alternatives, Best Practices, and Pitfalls, looks at Skaffold alternative tools such as Telepresence, and also covers Skaffold best practices and traps.