Understanding the Skaffold workflow

Typically, Skaffold works in two modes, namely, continuous development or an end-to-end pipeline through commands such as skaffold dev and skaffold run. For example, when you run the skaffold dev command, the following steps are carried out by Skaffold:

1. Receive and watch your source code for changes.
2. Copy the changed files straight to build if the user marks them as eligible for copying.
3. Build your artifacts from the source code.
4. Test your built artifacts using container-structure-tests or custom scripts.
5. Tag your artifacts.
6. Push your artifacts (only if the Kubernetes context is set to a remote cluster).
7. Update the Kubernetes manifests with the correct tags.
8. Deploy your artifacts.
9. Monitor the deployed artifacts with built-in health checks.
10. Stream logs from the running pods.
11. Clean up any deployed artifacts on exit by pressing Ctrl + C.

    In the case of the skaffold run command, the workflow is relatively...