epinio VS skaffold

You could have a look to https://epinio.io/. It is a PAAS that leverage build pack to deploy app on k8s cluster. Disclaimer: my team is working on it

Epinion

Would have helped if I spent it right 😂 - https://github.com/epinio/epinio

Epinio can be installed using Helm onto any compliant Kubernetes Cluster. The latest CLI release can be found at [][https://github.com/epinio/epinio/releases]

We are building a product (Epinio) to avoid this. The idea is that devs don't need to access the cluster and to know the Kubernetes internals to deploy something. It's still in alpha/beta, with a lot of development ongoing. 🙂

For the Apache/php container portion and building the app itself, I'd suggest looking at buildpacks (Paketo buildpacks are easy). This can let you standardize on the code->container pipeline. (I'm biased since I'm working on Epinio which uses them to simplify the code->running application pipeline)

For dev work, we also are working on a project called Epinio which takes a bit of a different approach to developing on top of Kubernetes. (https://epinio.io)

Your workflow describes the inner loop of development. Take a look at https://skaffold.dev that. If you can’t be bothered to learn how to write k8s manifests, epinio might be worth a shot. I tried it on some simple stuff and it worked but I doubt it’s usefulness in complex setups. https://github.com/epinio/epinio

A nice middle ground is using a tool like Google's Skaffold, which provides "Bazel-like" capabilities for composing Docker images and tagging them based on a number of strategies, including file manifests. In my case, I also use build args to explicitly set versions of external dependencies.

While I am in a Typescript environment with this setup at the moment, my personal experience that Skaffold with Docker has a lighter implementation and maintenance overhead than Bazel. (You also get the added benefit of easy deployment and automatic rebuilds.)

I quite liked using Bazel in a small Golang monorepo, but I ran into pain when trying to do things like include third-party pre-compiled binaries in the Docker builds, because of the unusual build rules convention. The advantage of Skaffold is it provides a thin build/tag/deploy/verify layer over Docker and other container types. Might be worth a look!

Kudos to the Google team building it! https://skaffold.dev

To get a similar experience of preevy up, first we’ll need to split the build and deploy using process or alternatively employ tools that orchestrate build-tag-push-update-sync flow like Skaffold/Tilt.

We will be using docker and microk8s from Canonical. For running our software during development, we will be using skaffold which is a great tool developed by Google.

To add more context, if you are developing containers in a local dev environment, the minimum you should have is the Google Cloud SDK and Skaffold. The SDK will allow you to programmatically interact with Googleapis e.g. auth, services, resources. Skaffold will allow you to build and deploy to the cloud similar to working with a local dev environment.

I have used both Skaffold and Devspace. I prefer the latter.

I wonder if it has some overlap with https://skaffold.dev/.

K3d and Skaffold for local development

skaffold.dev - build in k8s - no more asking for the database password. All the plumbing to the backend is just done so it's easier for them to test and demo any branch