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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077118

Length 272 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ashish Choudhary

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

Comparing Skaffold with other alternatives

In this section, we will compare Skaffold with other alternative tools that address similar problems that Skaffold solves, that is, improving the developer experience with Kubernetes. However, there may be use cases where Skaffold may not be the best tool for the job, so we will look into tools other than Skaffold if your use case is complex in the next section. We will also look at the features that these Kubernetes development tools provide in comparison with Skaffold. Let's begin!

Telepresence

Telepresence (https://www.telepresence.io/) is a tool developed by Ambassador Labs. It's a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project. Its goal is to improve the developer experience with Kubernetes. Telepresence allows you to run a single service locally while connecting that service to a remote Kubernetes cluster. You can read more about it here: https://www.telepresence.io/about/.

With Telepresence, you can develop and...