Section 1: The Kubernetes Nightmare – Skaffold to the Rescue

In this section, we will describe the pain and suffering of developing an application with Kubernetes. There are several manual touchpoints in developing a Kubernetes application locally, and it decreases the productivity of a developer. The focus should be on writing code and adding more features to the product rather than worrying about replicating infrastructure on your workstation to debug an issue or test a feature. Engineers at Google described this as an infinite loop of pain and suffering. We will introduce you to Skaffold and how it can help you automate the build, push, and deploy workflow for applications running on Kubernetes.

In this section, we have the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Code, Build, Test, and Repeat – The Application Development Inner Loop
• Chapter 2, Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Kubernetes – A Developer's Nightmare
• Chapter 3, Skaffold &...