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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077118

Length 272 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ashish Choudhary

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Exploring Skaffold container image deployers

In this section, we will look at the container image deployment methods supported by Skaffold. With Skaffold, you can deploy your application to Kubernetes using the following three tools:

Helm
kubectl
Kustomize

Let's discuss them in detail.

Helm

Helm is the package manager, and charts are the packages for your Kubernetes applications. It allows you to define, install, and update your Kubernetes application easily. You can write charts for your applications or use production-ready, pre-packaged charts for popular software such as MySQL and MongoDB from a stable chart repository.

Until Helm 2, Helm followed a client-server architecture. However, due to significant changes being made to the architecture with Helm 3, it is a client-only architecture. Therefore, there is no need to have a server-side component such as Tiller installed on your Kubernetes cluster.

Now, let's learn more about Helm...