v1.15.0 Release - 09/29/2020

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.15.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.15.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.15.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.15.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta8. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights:

• skaffold debug now supports Helm applications!
• Quickstart docs now open directly in Cloud Shell
• Skaffold now falls back to Kubectl's built-in Kustomize if standalone binary not present
• Helm deployments can now optionally create a namespace before deploying
• Kubectl and Kustomize deployments can now configure a default namespace

New Features:

• skaffold deploy -t flag #4778
• Add fallback to kubectl kustomize if kustomize binary isn't present #4484
• Support docker build --secret flag #4731
• Adds support for debug for Helm #4732
• Support configuring default namespace for kubectl/kustomize deployers #4374
• Add option for helm deployments to create namespace #4765

Fixes:

• Fix skaffold filter to handle multiple yaml documents #4829
• Fix skaffold build | skaffold deploy with SKAFFOLD_DEFAULT_REPO rewrites image name twice #4817
• Ensure Windows console color enablement #4798
• Add option to skaffold run similar to "skaffold build -b" #4734
• Return error for invalid dockerfile instruction "COPY" with no arguments #4795
• Make FakeAPIClient threadsafe #4790
• Pass correct build args to CreateDockerTarContext #4768
• Surface error for render #4758

Updates:

• [kpt deployer] Customize the manipulated resource directory. #4819
• Pass docker.Config instead of InsecureRegistries #4755
• Move deployers into separate packages #4812
• [kpt deployer] Add "local-config" annotation to kpt fn configs. #4803
• [kpt deployer] Improve skaffold.yaml docs. #4799
• Try to import docker images before falling back to building #3891
• Make flag order deterministic for helm's --setFiles #4779
• Expand home directory for setFiles in helm deployment #4619
• Pass a context to DefaultAuthHelper.GetAllConfigs() #4760

Docs Updates:

• Add Cloud Shell for simpler Quickstart #4830
• Add design proposal for supporting dependencies between build artifacts #4794
• Document how to disable autosync for buildpacks #4805
• Clarify usage of ArtifactOverrides, ImageStrategy #4487

Huge thanks goes out to all of our contributors for this release:

• Alexander Lyon
• Andreas Sommer
• Andrey Shlykov
• Brian de Alwis
• David Gageot
• Gaurav
• Kri5
• Marlon Gamez
• Nick Kubala
• Paul "TBBle" Hampson
• Thomas Strömberg
• Yuwen Ma
• ilya-zuyev