Skaffold
Continuous development for Kubernetes applications
Skaffold is an open-source command-line tool from Google that handles the workflow for building, pushing, and deploying applications to Kubernetes. It enables iterative development against self-hosted clusters.
Key features
- Build-deploy automation
- File sync for fast iteration
- Pluggable builders
- CI/CD integration
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Mature project with 15.9k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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