skaffold will not tail logs when just using deploy will print out logs if using build and deploy

[pcurewitz]

Expected behavior

it would be nice to be able to tail the pod logs with just having deploy in skaffold.yaml and running skaffold dev. Right now this does not work just goes up to watching for changes....

Also if you are using both build and deploy if you change the code you don't get the pod logs of changed state

Actual behavior

the only way to get the tailed pod logs is if you build an image and deploy

Information

• Skaffold version: v1.21.0
• Operating system: 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
• Installed via: skaffold.dev
• Contents of skaffold.yaml:

apiVersion: skaffold/v2beta13
kind: Config
deploy:
helm:
releases:
- name: skaffold-helm
chartPath: charts
artifactOverrides:
image: dockerrepo.broadbus.com:5000/skaffold-helm

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. just have deploy in skaffold.yaml file

[nkubala]

@pcurewitz thanks for the issue. this is actually a somewhat separate bug - skaffold is not monitoring the correct pods in this case, and the pods are likely failing silently. i opened an issue to track this here: #5624

in the meantime, you might find skaffold apply useful: you can use skaffold render to render out some manifests with digests resolved using your provided tags, and then send them to your cluster using skaffold apply, while still getting port forwarding and log tailing like you're used to. maybe give that a try and see if that fits your use case?

[tejal29]

@pcurewitz friendly ping on if @nkubala's suggestion fixes your issue.

Reducing the priority since its out of SLO and no comment from the user.