Summary

This chapter introduced you to some of Skaffold's peculiarities, such as super-fast local development, effortless remote development, built-in tag management, lightweight capability, and file sync capability to name a few. These are compelling features that will help you to improve the developer experience. Additionally, we looked at the Skaffold architecture and discovered that Skaffold has a pluggable architecture. This means that you can always bring your own tools to build and deploy your applications. Following this, we covered the steps that typically occur within the Skaffold development workflow. Finally, at the end of the chapter, we studied the Skaffold main components and some global configurations supported via the Skaffold configuration.

In this chapter, the main goal was to give you an insight into Skaffold's features and internals by looking at its architecture and typical development workflow. You have developed a deep understanding of Skaffold...