Audience
DevOps professionals wanting a tool to simplify and automate their application deployment processes
About Skaffold
Skaffold is an open source command-line tool that streamlines the development workflow for Kubernetes applications. It automates the processes of building, pushing, and deploying your application, allowing you to focus on writing code. Skaffold supports various tools and technologies, offering flexibility in choosing your preferred build and deployment methods. It features a pluggable architecture, enabling integration with different implementations of the build and deploy stages. Skaffold is lightweight, operating entirely on the client side without adding overhead or maintenance burdens to your Kubernetes cluster. It facilitates fast local Kubernetes development by detecting source code changes and handling the pipeline to build, push, test, and deploy your application automatically. Skaffold also provides continuous feedback by managing deployment logging and resource port-forwarding. Its context-aware capabilities allow the use of profiles, local user configurations, etc.