Skaffold

Skaffold reports itself as “Fast. Repeatable. Simple.” And it is. Skaffold is to Kubernetes what Docker Compose is to Docker. However, it provides build, load, watch, rebuild loop directly on K8s clusters. This makes Skaffold an indispensable developer tool for any Shift Left org using Kubernetes.

As a developer tool for a certain type of org it is clearly categorized as “adopt”. However, despite Google’s insistence to the contrary, it is not a good Continuous Deployment tool. It will always need to be replaced eventually, but we find that the same mindset choose skaffold for CD has often taken other shortcuts that make migration harder than one would expect. Thus we are cautious.