winget install --id=Google.ContainerTools.Skaffold -e
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Skaffold is a command-line tool designed to simplify continuous development for Kubernetes applications. It automates the workflow of building, pushing, and deploying your application, enabling seamless iteration on source code locally or in remote Kubernetes clusters.
Key Features:
Audience & Benefit: Ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and teams building Kubernetes-native applications. Skaffold streamlines development workflows, reduces manual effort, and accelerates feedback loops, making it easier to iterate and deploy applications efficiently. It can be installed via winget.
Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. You can iterate on your application source code locally then deploy to local or remote Kubernetes clusters. Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application. It also provides building blocks and describe customizations for a CI/CD pipeline.
Or, check out our Github Releases page for release info or to install a specific version.
git clone
and skaffold run
skaffold run
end-to-end, or use individual Skaffold phases to build up your CI/CD pipeline. skaffold render
outputs hydrated Kubernetes manifests that can be used in GitOps workflows.For a managed experience of Skaffold you can install the Google Cloud Code
extensions:
It can manage and keep Skaffold up-to-date while providing a more guided startup experience, along with providing and managing other common dependencies, and works with any kubernetes cluster.
We welcome any contributions from the community with open arms - Skaffold wouldn't be where it is today without contributions from the community! Have a look at our contribution guide for more information on how to get started on sending your first PR.
Skaffold is generally available and considered production ready. Detailed feature maturity information and how we deprecate features are described in our Deprecation Policy.
Please see our security disclosure process. All security advisories are managed on Github.