Cloud Deploy Verify Job Skaffold Failure

What Skaffold Deployment Verification Is

Deployment verification in Google Cloud Deploy is a native pipeline feature that allows automated execution of verification jobs (such as end-to-end or integration tests) against a target environment following a deployment phase.

How It Meets the Troubleshooting Requirement

When verify: true is enabled on a target stage or canary strategy within DeliveryPipeline, Cloud Deploy orchestrates a separate VERIFY execution environment job. For this job to execute successfully:

• Cloud Deploy requires a corresponding verify stanza in the skaffold.yaml configuration (or within the relevant Skaffold profile) that specifies the container image and test execution commands.
• The skaffold.yaml must use an apiVersion of skaffold/v3alpha1 or greater.
• If verify: true is configured in the pipeline but the skaffold.yaml is missing the verify stanza, Cloud Deploy will automatically fail the Verify JobRun.

Key Capabilities

• Automated quality gates: Executes containerized test workloads in an isolated execution environment immediately after manifests are applied.
• Integrated canary progression: Validates health between percentage-based canary increments before promoting to subsequent phases.
• Profile-specific verification: Allows distinct verification test containers and criteria across dev, staging, and prod targets.
• Standardized schema: Integrates test execution specifications directly into the native declarative Skaffold configuration.

Why This Is Optimal

Adding the verify stanza with appropriate test container definitions and a compliant apiVersion satisfies Cloud Deploy's validation requirements and allows the verification phase to run test suites directly against the deployed canary pods.