Skaffold is in my experience the best tool in this space, but there are ton of promising options. There's a really nice VS Code plugin from google that basically adds a whole workflow based on skaffold to the IDE: https://cloud.google.com/code/docs/vscode or https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GoogleCl... Despite a lot of focus on Google's hosted k8s offersings, the cloud code extension happily works with minikube and other local clusters.