Skaffold and mutiple Sub Charts

Question

lately I was experimenting with Skaffold with our Helm Charts and I am in little bit in a dilemma that our Helm Chart \ Sub Charts are compatible with Skaffold or not.

Our helm Charts are looking like the following

my-helm-charts
+-charts
  +-project1
  +-project2
  +-project3
  +-project4
  +-infrastructure_kafka
    +-charts
      +-kafka
      +-zookeeper
  +-infrastructure_cassandra
  +-infrastructure_elasticsearch
  +-Charts.yaml
  +-Values.yaml

The reason we choosed to structure the Helm Charts this way, is that if necessary to spin up extra stages for our project.

Now when I want to develop project2 with Google Cloud Code / Skaffold (which I configured correctly and I can start without problem in IntelliJ) I have to start whole my-helm-charts.

That is actually Ok but the problem is, if I use Debug in Kubernetes, I have a feeling Google Cloud Code/Skaffold can really locate the project2 and no debugging occurs.

My feeling is Google Cloud/Skaffold is more oriented to work with following contruct...

project2-helm
+-templates
+-Charts.yaml
+-Values.yaml

My Subcharts contructs starts in Google Cloud Code/Skaffold without any exception but I can't debug, is it possible to achieve want I want with my structure and if yes, how?

Or is it not possible at all...

Thx for answers...

Answer 1

We recently added a feature called config dependencies which might help here. It allows you to create more specific skaffold.yamls and then map them together with a "requires" field: https://skaffold.dev/docs/design/config/#configuration-dependencies

Once you have the skaffold.yamls created and the right dependency mapping you can run skaffold with the -m flag to choose once slice of your services:

skaffold dev -m project3

Cloud Code support for modules is incoming.

Answer 2

Cloud Code IntelliJ and Cloud Code VS Code recently added preview level support for deploying and debugging modules of a larger application which uses Skaffold. See more here https://cloud.google.com/code/docs/intellij/skaffold-modules