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Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

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A tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.

  Find more information at: https://skaffold.dev/docs/getting-started/

End-to-end Pipelines:
  run                 Run a pipeline
  dev                 Run a pipeline in development mode
  debug               Run a pipeline in debug mode

Pipeline Building Blocks:
  build               Build the artifacts
  test                Run tests against your built application images
  deploy              Deploy pre-built artifacts
  delete              Delete any resources deployed by Skaffold
  render              Generate rendered Kubernetes manifests
  apply               Apply hydrated manifests to a cluster
  verify              Run verification tests against skaffold deployments

Getting Started With a New Project:
  init                Generate configuration for deploying an application

Other Commands:
  completion          Output shell completion for the given shell (bash, fish or zsh)
  config              Interact with the global Skaffold config file (defaults to `$HOME/.skaffold/config`)
  diagnose            Run a diagnostic on Skaffold
  exec                Execute a custom action
  fix                 Update old configuration to a newer schema version
  schema              List JSON schemas used to validate skaffold.yaml configuration
  version             Print the version information

Usage:
  skaffold [flags] [options]

Use "skaffold <command> --help" for more information about a given command.
Use "skaffold options" for a list of global command-line options (applies to all commands).

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