skaffold VS Bazel

Skaffold + Docker Dekstop Kubernetes works really well for me. My company's main codebase has ~7 services, service discovery works by DNS (k8s services), everything is super composable. Obviously, since we're a kubernetes focused company so I'm biased, but Skaffold is fantastic.

Skaffold is an open source project started by a Google engineer after suffering the pain of cloud native Kubernetes deployments. It’s effectively a command-line tool that automates the build, push, and deploy steps for Kubernetes applications.

Skaffold

This article only scraches the surface of what skaffold is capable of! You can find tons examples in the official github repository

Author here. Tilt is great.

After minikube I wrote skaffold, which is a closer alternative to docker compose for Kubernetes with file watching and automated rebuilds and syncs.

https://skaffold.dev

I built something like this in Go a few years ago but it reloads your infrastructure when it changes, recompiles your code when it needs to, and syncs static files or interpreted files to wherever your app is running (desktop or cloud). Think of it like docker-compose but with file watching + sync + smart rebuilds. https://skaffold.dev/

DevSpace sounds pretty interesting and seems to address the issue of migrations pretty clearly, whether with hooks or just doing something like devspace enter python manage.py migrate in the Python example. It seems like doing Django migrations with Skaffold involves setting up a Pod or Job solely for this purpose. It doesn't sound like there is functionality, or plans to add it, to Skaffold for running custom commands in the Pod: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/issues/4179.

How do you handle cache correctness for things like Linux C++ compilers that like to spew their dependencies all over the file system? Bazel doesn't bother which seems very risky to me.

Blaze: build software, focused on parallel building, speed, and consistency. A part of it has been open-sourced as Bazel. Many Googlers will pick blaze as the single piece of software that stands out.

There are technologies like gRPC, Blaze, Abseil which are either used as they are inside Google, or have very similar internal counterparts. Knowledge of such things would definitely prove valuable during your apprenticeship, but I have no idea if it's something that will be considered for the recruitment process at all.

There's a Bazel slack. It's linked to in the footer of https://bazel.build

I made a somewhat complex React app at work with CRA. It worked well for over a year but recently i ended up tearing the whole thing apart and rebuilding it with a build tool called bazel. It was a pain with their node_js rules and such but honestly, I don't think doing a custom setup is that daunting if you are just using the regular JS toolchain (babel or the ts compiler, webpack, a node server of some sort to server the bundle).

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases, I downloaded the last exe file for windows 64 bits, and when I press it displays that the bazel is cmd, okay I said i set as path and added the location of the Bazel executable to your my %Path, and still when I am running the command: python ./configure.py says bazel, is not install it has drive me crazy if someone could help a noob.

Check out https://bazel.build, an open source subset of Google's internal build system. It has been developed with dependency management in mind and can build targets from multiple languages.

Code related to building Angular using the open source Bazel build system

Seconding protobufs and gRPC, they will most likely handle the data transfer. Bazel can seamlessly handle the dependencies. It's based on Google's internal build system.