Final thoughts

Tooling around Kubernetes developer tools has improved significantly in recent years. The primary motivation for that is the increased adoption of Kubernetes in the industry. Modern age developers want a tool that increases their productivity while developing applications for the cloud. Skaffold dramatically enhances the productivity of developers building and deploying Kubernetes applications.

Many tools internally use Skaffold, such as Jenkins X and Cloud Code, to improve the overall developer experience with Kubernetes. In contrast to Jenkins X, which uses Skaffold to build and push the image in the pipeline, Cloud Code is entirely built around Skaffold and its supported tools to provide a seamless onboarding experience for Kubernetes applications.

Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that Skaffold simplifies Kubernetes development, and in my opinion, it is doing a good job. It provides flexibility and extensibility on what kind of integrations it should...