How deeply does Google Anthos in Action cover Skaffold?

Explains the watch-build-push-deploy-cleanup workflow and demonstrates CLI and configuration usage without detailing implementation internals.

Skaffold

As explained in Google Anthos in Action

Skaffold is a command-line tool that facilitates continuous development for containerized applications by automating build, deploy, and feedback workflows.

Skaffold is an open-source CLI for continuous development of Kubernetes applications. It watches source files, builds container images, pushes them to a registry, deploys them to a Kubernetes endpoint, and cleans up resources when development stops. section 12.3.2

Skaffold supports development and delivery workflows by:

Deploying locally to Minikube or remotely to an Anthos cluster. section 12.3.2
Providing CI/CD building blocks through kubectl, Helm, and Kustomize. section 12.3.2

Hello World development loop

A Go Hello World application can be built into a container image and deployed through a Skaffold configuration, then continuously rebuilt and redeployed with `skaffold dev`. A Kubernetes context can be selected explicitly, such as `skaffold dev --kube-context <myrepo>`.

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Related concepts

Kubernetesuses · Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating and automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized workloads across computing clusters.
Cloud Codeused by · Cloud Code is a Google Cloud plug-in that integrates Kubernetes and cloud-native application development workflows into supported development environments.
Cloud Buildused by · Cloud Build is a managed Google Cloud service that executes automated build, test, and deployment steps from source code or configuration changes.
Skaffold configuration fileconfigured by · A Skaffold configuration file is a YAML document that defines Skaffold build, deployment, and development workflow steps.
Kubernetes manifestuses · A Kubernetes manifest is a declarative configuration document, typically written in YAML or JSON, that specifies Kubernetes resources and their desired state.
continuous developmentimplemented by · Continuous development is a software development practice that automatically rebuilds, redeploys, and previews application changes during development.

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