openfaas-templates VS skaffold

A custom NodeJS OpenFaaS template that uses MongoDB and Mongoose to manage the data models

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.

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

To access you service your have several options (it depends on teams the preferences) you can use scaffold https://skaffold.dev/ or for simple case kfwd https://github.com/GiGurra/kfwd. Last for everything that is normally expose on internet you would have an Ingress and use external-dns as you would in prod.

This approach works great when it’s feasible, which is usually at a very early stage in the life of the application where it’s still small and tenable. There’s some tooling that lets you extend this honeymoon phase by letting you do it more easily, like docker-compose, Skaffold, or Tilt. However, at a certain point, even if you’ve written whatever scriptage is needed to actually configure and run the latest stable version of all of your components together, you’re going to hit some sort of ceiling: if you’ve got a large database, or some CPU-heavy computations, or you’re relying on some managed service that can’t be containerized, this approach soon becomes untenable.

Another dev optimization is the conditional rebuilding of a container. For example tools like devspace and skaffold support syncing filles which have changes, but which don't require recompiling.

I have been using Skaffold to deploy my apps to Kubernetes. As I use this for spring Boot apps too so it saves me learning another deployment process.