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                        Fast. Repeatable. Simple.
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                        Local Kubernetes Development.
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                                    Get Skaffold <i class="fas fa-download"></i>
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                        Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application, allowing you
                        to focus on what matters most:  <b style="display: contents">writing code</b>.
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                            An open source project from Google.
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    <h4 class="h3 mb-4">Lightweight</h4>
    <p class="mb-0 text-left">Skaffold is client-side only. With no on-cluster component, there is no overhead or
        maintenance burden to your cluster.</p>
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    <h4 class="h3 mb-4">Works Everywhere</h4>
    <p class="mb-2 text-left">Skaffold is the easiest way to share your project with the world: 'git clone', then
        'skaffold run'.</p>
    <p class="mb-0 text-left">Additionally, you can use profiles, local user config, environment variables, and flags to
        easily incorporate differences across environments.</p>
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    <h4 class="h3 mb-4">Feature Rich</h4>
    <p class="mb-0 text-left">Skaffold has many essential features for Kubernetes-native development, including
        policy-based image tagging, resource port-forwarding and logging, file syncing, and much more.</p>
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    <h4 class="h3 mb-4">Optimized Development</h4>
    <p class="mb-0 text-left">Skaffold's inner loop is tight and highly optimized, giving you instant feedback while
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    <h4 class="testimonial h3 mb-4">"Our customers love [Kubernetes], but consistently gave us feedback that
        developing on Kubernetes was cumbersome. Skaffold hit the mark in addressing this problem. Changes to a docker
        image or a configuration that previously took several minutes to deploy now take seconds. Skaffold's plugin
        architecture gives us the ability to deploy to Helm or Kustomize, and to use various docker build plugins such
        as Kaniko. Skaffold replaced our bespoke collection of utilities and scripts with a streamlined tool that is
        easy to use."</h4>
    <p class="testimonial-byline mb-0 text-left">Warren Strange, Engineering Director, ForgeRock</p>
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    <h4 class="testimonial h3 mb-4">"When we evaluated what workflows we could use with Kubernetes, Skaffold stood out
        as a tool we'd want for both development and deployment. It gives us a common entry point across applications
        that we can also reuse for CI/CD. Right now, all of our CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes applications use Skaffold
        when building and deploying."</h4>
    <p class="testimonial-byline mb-0 text-left">Taylor Barrella, Software Engineer, Quora</p>
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    <h4 class="testimonial h3 mb-4">"Skaffold is an amazing tool that simplified development and delivery for us.
        Skaffold hit our sweet spot by covering two dimensions: First, the entire development cycle from local
        development, integration testing to delivery. Second, Skaffold enabled us to develop independently of the platform
        on Linux, OSX, and Windows, with no platform specific logic required."</h4>
    <p class="testimonial-byline mb-0 text-left">Martin Höfling, Principal Consultant, TNG Technology Consulting
        GmbH</p>
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