Installing Skaffold

You can install Skaffold as a single binary to run from the command line, or you can use it as part of Cloud Code. Cloud Code is available from Google as a set of extensions to popular IDEs. You can also use it in the Google Cloud Shell IDE. Cloud Code is described in Chapter 3.

Skaffold is also used in Cloud Deploy to render manifests and apply them to deploy your application to various Google Cloud runtime environments. Cloud Deploy is described in Chapter 8.

The examples in the chapter are executed using the standalone Skaffold binary. Installing Skaffold as part of Cloud Code is described in Chapter 3.

The following command installs the Skaffold binary on an x86_64 Linux machine:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64 && sudo install skaffold /usr/local/bin/

For other platforms, follow the instructions listed at https://skaffold.dev/docs/install/.