---
title: "Use Skaffold to build and deploy an application on Kubernetes"
linkTitle: "Build and deploy on Kubernetes"
weight: 90
---

This is a link to an introductory Cloud Shell tutorial. In this tutorial, you will:

* Use **skaffold init** to bootstrap your Skaffold config.
* Use **skaffold dev** to automatically build and deploy your application when your code changes.
* Use **skaffold build** and **skaffold test** to tag, push, and test your container images.
* Use **skaffold render** and **skaffold apply** to generate and deploy Kubernetes manifests as part of a GitOps workflow.

[![Open in Cloud Shell](https://gstatic.com/cloudssh/images/open-btn.png)](https://ssh.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/editor?show=ide%2Cterminal&cloudshell_git_repo=https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold&walkthrough_id=skaffold--skaffold_onboarding&cloudshell_workspace=/examples/buildpacks-node-tutorial&cloudshell_open_in_editor=src/index.js)
