Section 3: Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Spring Boot Applications with Skaffold

This section will primarily focus on building and deploying Spring Boot applications using Skaffold to local (minikube and so on) and remote clusters (GKE). We will explore how you can build and deploy cloud-native applications from the comfort of your IDE using Cloud Code developed by Google. Then we will build and deploy a Spring Boot application to a managed Kubernetes offering such as GKE using Skaffold. We will further learn about creating a production-ready CI/CD pipeline using Skaffold and GitHub Actions. We will do some experiments by combining Skaffold and Argo CD to implement a GitOps-style CD workflow. Finally, we will look at some alternatives to Skaffold and learn about Skaffold best practices that we should utilize in our workflow. Furthermore, we will explore the most common pitfalls/limitations of developing an application with Skaffold. Finally, we will summarize what we have learned...