Chapter 3: Skaffold — Easy-Peasy Cloud-Native Kubernetes Application Development

In the previous chapter, we learned that developing applications with Kubernetes is cumbersome and provided some coding examples. This chapter will cover a high-level overview of Skaffold. You will also learn and understand Skaffold basic command-line interface (CLI) commands and how these ease developers' pain in developing cloud-native microservices with Skaffold. We will demonstrate Skaffold's basic features by building and deploying a Spring Boot application.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • What is Skaffold?
  • Building and deploying a Spring Boot application with Skaffold

By the end of this chapter, you will have a basic understanding ...

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