Support for ko?

[evankanderson]

I'd like to be able to use ko to build binaries with Skaffold

Expected behavior

There are some docs about how to use ko with skaffold.

Actual behavior

No docs.

Information

• Skaffold version: head / current docs
• Operating system: Windows

/kind feature-request

[balopat]

Thanks for opening this! Yes, this came up before, I'd love to see ko integrated. One tricky bit is that ko is a builder and a deployer at the same time, but probably we can work something out.

We are working on the extensibility model for skaffold builders currently, so things are a bit up in the air, as soon as that settled, we will be able to fit ko in theoretically.

[evankanderson]

There is a `ko publish` mode which performs build and yaml replacement but does not perform an apply.

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[tejal29]

We should try to add an example for ko custom builder. Maybe we could add this for github.com/tektoncd/pipelines

[tejal29]

@evankanderson please feel free to take a stab as per the docs mentioned https://skaffold.dev/docs/how-tos/builders/#custom-build-script-run-locally

[tstromberg]

I'm closing this as it's been a while, and there are still no plans to create a 'ko' builder.

That said, we now show how to use ko as a custom builder in examples/custom.