Chapter 9: Creating a Production-Ready CI/CD Pipeline with Skaffold

In the previous chapter, we learned how to deploy a Spring Boot application to Google Cloud Platform using Skaffold. In this chapter, the focus will be on introducing you to GitHub Actions and their related concepts. We will also demonstrate how we can create a production-ready continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline of a Spring Boot application using Skaffold and GitHub Actions. In the last section, we will get familiarized with GitOps concepts and learn about creating a continuous delivery pipeline for Kubernetes applications using Argo CD and Skaffold.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

• Getting started with GitHub Actions
• Creating a GitHub Action workflow
• Creating a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and Skaffold
• Implementing a GitOps workflow with Argo CD and Skaffold

By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding...