diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 96ef862..0000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-target/
-.idea/
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index b21568c..bf9eec6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - run: docker build --tag "pod-graceful-drain:latest" .
+      - run: |
+          docker build --file docker/build.Dockerfile \
+            --tag "pod-graceful-drain:latest" \
+            .
       - run: docker image save --output pod-graceful-drain.tar pod-graceful-drain
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
diff --git a/charts/pod-graceful-drain/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/pod-graceful-drain/templates/deployment.yaml
index 0164c0c..7893aa3 100644
--- a/charts/pod-graceful-drain/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/pod-graceful-drain/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ spec:
             {{- end }}
           env:
             - name: RUST_LOG
-              value: {{ .Values.logLevel }}
+              value: {{ .Values.logLevel | quote }}
           readinessProbe:
             httpGet:
               path: "/healthz"
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/docker/build.Dockerfile
similarity index 71%
rename from Dockerfile
rename to docker/build.Dockerfile
index b3d1eb6..1887c7a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/build.Dockerfile
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
-FROM rust:1.79-slim-bookworm as fetch
+FROM rust:1.79-slim-bookworm as builder
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git
 RUN mkdir /src
 WORKDIR /src
-COPY ./Cargo.* /src/
-RUN cargo fetch --verbose
-
-FROM fetch as builder
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git
 COPY . /src/
 RUN cargo install --path .
 
diff --git a/docker/build.Dockerfile.dockerignore b/docker/build.Dockerfile.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fea67c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/build.Dockerfile.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/.github/
+/charts/
+/tests/
+/.gitignore
+/LICENSE
+/README.md
+/.python-version
+/pyproject.toml
+/requirements.lock
+/requirements-dev.lock
+/skaffold.yaml
+
+/target/
+/.venv/
+
+/.idea/
diff --git a/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile b/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2970dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+FROM rust:1.79-slim-bookworm AS cache
+
+# prepare git cli
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git
+
+# create /src dir
+RUN mkdir /src
+WORKDIR /src
+
+# warm-up dependencies build cache
+COPY ./Cargo.* /src/
+COPY build.rs /src/
+RUN mkdir src && \
+    echo 'fn main() { println!("Hello, world!"); }' > src/main.rs && \
+    cargo build && \
+    rm -rf src
+
+FROM cache AS build
+
+COPY . /src/
+RUN cargo build
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=build /src/target/debug/pod-graceful-drain /app/pod-graceful-drain
+ENTRYPOINT ["/app/pod-graceful-drain"]
diff --git a/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile.dockerignore b/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59b7a58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/skaffold.Dockerfile.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/.git/
+/.github/
+/charts/
+/tests/
+/.gitignore
+/LICENSE
+/README.md
+/.python-version
+/pyproject.toml
+/requirements.lock
+/requirements-dev.lock
+/skaffold.yaml
+
+/.venv/
+/target/
+
+/.idea/
diff --git a/skaffold.yaml b/skaffold.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3be6644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skaffold.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# skaffold is just to help tighten the local development/test loop
+apiVersion: skaffold/v4beta11
+kind: Config
+metadata:
+  name: pod-graceful-drain
+build:
+  artifacts:
+    - image: ghcr.io/foriequal0/pod-graceful-drain
+      docker:
+        dockerfile: docker/skaffold.Dockerfile
+      context: .
+  local:
+    push: false
+    useBuildkit: true
+    concurrency: 0
+deploy:
+  helm:
+    releases:
+      - name: pod-graceful-drain
+        chartPath: charts/pod-graceful-drain
+        valuesFiles:
+          - charts/pod-graceful-drain/values.yaml
+        setValues:
+          experimentalGeneralIngress: true
+          # Skaffold sends this parameter to Helm as a command line parameter
+          # '--set=logLevel=info,pod_graceful_drain=trace'. If we omit the backslash,
+          # Helm interprets a comma in the parameter as a delimiter for key=value pair,
+          # and it tries to set non-existent 'pod_graceful_drain' value to 'trace'.
+          # This escaping backslash is why I RIIR'd everything.
+          # Whenever I see Google-related products, I see this kind of practice.
+          # They implement some features in seemingly-unharmful broken ways because it is quick and simple.
+          # When they find features are broken, they don't fix it for compatibility reasons.
+          # Instead, they cover them up with still-broken ad-hoc mechanisms in obscure, undocumented ways.
+          # And they leak throughout their entire layers of abstractions like this.
+          logLevel: "info\\,pod_graceful_drain=trace"