skaffold-orbstack
Installation
SKILL.md
Skaffold with OrbStack - Port-Forward-Free Development
When to Use This Skill
| Use this skill when... | Use a sibling Skaffold/container skill instead when... |
|---|---|
| Wiring Skaffold against the OrbStack local Kubernetes cluster | Defining file-sync rules for the inner dev loop (skaffold-filesync) |
Reaching services via *.k8s.orb.local, LoadBalancer, or Ingress without port-forward |
Adding pre-deploy test or post-deploy verify stages (skaffold-testing) |
Migrating an existing project off kubectl port-forward onto OrbStack networking |
Hardening or shrinking the container image itself (container-development) |
Overview
OrbStack provides superior local Kubernetes networking compared to other tools (minikube, kind, Docker Desktop). Services are accessible directly from macOS without port-forward.