Skaffold vs Critical Stack: What are the differences?

What is Skaffold? Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development. 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.

What is Critical Stack? The secure container orchestration platform for the enterprise. It enables enterprises to run efficient and cost-effective containerized infrastructure while reducing risk.

Skaffold and Critical Stack can be categorized as "Container" tools.

Some of the features offered by Skaffold are:

• 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.

On the other hand, Critical Stack provides the following key features:

• Container execution
• Container networking
• Logging

Skaffold is an open source tool with 7.6K GitHub stars and 661 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Skaffold's open source repository on GitHub.