Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077118
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Ashish Choudhary Ashish Choudhary
Author Profile Icon Ashish Choudhary
Ashish Choudhary
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Building and deploying a Spring Boot application with Skaffold

To understand Skaffold commands and concepts better, in this section, we will build and deploy a Spring Boot Java application to a local single-node Kubernetes cluster using Skaffold.

Note

Whenever we talk about the Kubernetes cluster for local development in this book, we refer to the Kubernetes cluster with Docker Desktop, if not specified otherwise. However, Docker Desktop or minikube is not the only tool available today for running a local Kubernetes cluster. Skaffold also supports Kind https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind and k3d https://github.com/rancher/k3d as target Kubernetes clusters for local development.

Since this will be a sneak-peek of Skaffold, we will not cover everything in detail about Skaffold, as we are going to cover this in the upcoming chapters. I will, however, try to explain the commands used so that you can understand the exact flow. Before we dive into Skaffold, let's first...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image