Google Cloud PlatformWhat is Skaffold?
Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. You can iterate on your application source code locally then deploy to local or remote Kubernetes clusters. Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application. It can also be used in an automated context such as a CI/CD pipeline to leverage the same workflow and tooling when moving applications to production.
Skaffold is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
No server-side component. No overhead to your cluster.Detect changes in your source code and automatically build/push/deploy.Image tag management. Stop worrying about updating the image tags in Kubernetes manifests to push out changes during development.Supports existing tooling and workflows. Build and deploy APIs make each implementation composable to support many different workflows.Support for multiple application components. Build and deploy only the pieces of your stack that have changed.Deploy regularly when saving files or run one off deployments using the same configuration
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Skaffold Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Skaffold?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
