Skaffold is a tool to automate your Kubernetes development experience. I’ve used it extensively for the past year for rapid code prototyping. It has native support for a lot of use cases, but getting used to it takes some finetuning beyond the usual getting started. In this article, I will show you how to configure Skaffold to quickstart a Java application on Rancher Desktop.

TL;DR: Cronjobs are a Kubernetes object allowing for short, scheduled tasks such as batches to be launched onto kubernetes. In this article we will go through the key commands to use them, see a simple example for file transfer, and finally some considerations regarding concrete use cases.