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Effortless Cloud-Native App Development Using Skaffold

You're reading from   Effortless Cloud-Native App Development Using Skaffold Simplify the development and deployment of cloud-native Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes with Skaffold

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077118
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashish Choudhary Ashish Choudhary
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Kubernetes Nightmare – Skaffold to the Rescue
2. Chapter 1: Code, Build, Test, and Repeat – The Application Development Inner Loop FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Kubernetes – A Developer's Nightmare 4. Chapter 3: Skaffold — Easy-Peasy Cloud-Native Kubernetes Application Development 5. Section 2: Getting Started with Skaffold
6. Chapter 4: Understanding Skaffold's Features and Architecture 7. Chapter 5: Installing Skaffold and Demystifying Its Pipeline Stages 8. Chapter 6: Working with Skaffold Container Image Builders and Deployers 9. Section 3: Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Spring Boot Applications with Skaffold
10. Chapter 7: Building and Deploying a Spring Boot Application with the Cloud Code Plugin 11. Chapter 8: Deploying a Spring Boot Application to the Google Kubernetes Engine Using Skaffold 12. Chapter 9: Creating a Production-Ready CI/CD Pipeline with Skaffold 13. Chapter 10: Exploring Skaffold Alternatives, Best Practices, and Pitfalls 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Containerizing and deploying a Spring Boot application using Cloud Code

Let's try to containerize and deploy the Spring Boot application we created in the previous section. To containerize our Spring Boot application, we will use jib-maven-plugin. We've used this many times in previous chapters, so I will skip the setup for it here. We will deploy to a local Minikube cluster using kubectl. Let's learn how to do this:

  1. First, we will need a skaffold.yaml file in the root directory of our project.
  2. You can create an empty file named skaffold.yaml and use the Cloud Code auto-completion feature, as shown in the following screenshot, to generate a working skaffold.yaml file:

    Figure 7.14 – Creating the skaffold.yaml file using Cloud Code

  3. Sometimes, a new schema version may be available. Cloud Code is smart enough to detect those changes and will suggest that you upgrade the schema as well, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.15 – Updating...

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