Chapter 10: Exploring Skaffold Alternatives, Best Practices, and Pitfalls

In the previous chapter, you learned how you can create a CI/CD pipeline for a Spring Boot application using GitHub Actions and Skaffold. In this chapter, we will start by looking at other tools available on the market that provide similar functionalities as Skaffold. We will learn about tips and tricks that developers can adhere to while developing cloud-native Kubernetes applications with Skaffold. We will conclude by understanding Skaffold pitfalls that developers can typically avoid.

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

  • Comparing Skaffold with other alternatives
  • Applying Skaffold best practices
  • Avoiding Skaffold pitfalls
  • Future roadmap ...

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