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Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application.

So you can focus more on application development.
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Skaffold does not require a cluster-side component, so there is no overhead or maintenance burden to your cluster.
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Skaffold is the easiest way to share your project with the world: `git clone`, then `skaffold run`.

Additionally, you can use Skaffold profiles, user level config, environment variables and flags to describe differences in environments.
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Skaffold is fast and highly optimized, with support for policy-based tagging, logging, port-forwarding, and more.
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<h3 class="text-center">Skaffold is an open-source project built by Google.</h3>
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[Get Skaffold on Linux, macOS, and Windows.](/docs/getting-started/#installing-skaffold)
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We'd love to accept your contributions to this project. See the [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started.
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Join the [Skaffold mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/skaffold-users) to get the latest updates.

You can also discuss Skaffold at [the Skaffold topic on the Kubernetes Slack channel](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/CABQMSZA6/).
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