Tekton Pipelines

Tekton Pipelines is an open source implementation to configure and run CI/CD
style pipelines for your Kubernetes application.

Pipeline creates
Custom Resources
as building blocks to declare pipelines.

A custom resource is an extension of Kubernetes API which can create a custom
Kubernetes Object.
Once a custom resource is installed, users can create and access its objects
with kubectl, just as they do for built-in resources like pods, deployments etc.
These resources run on-cluster and are implemented by
Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD).

High level details of this design:

  • Pipelines do not know what will trigger them, they can be
    triggered by events or by manually creating PipelineRuns
  • Tasks can exist and be invoked completely independently of
    Pipelines; they are highly cohesive and loosely coupled
  • Tasks can depend on artifacts, output and parameters created by
    other tasks.
  • Tasks can be invoked via TaskRuns
  • PipelineResources are the artifacts used as inputs and outputs
    of Tasks.

Usage

Learn more

See the following reference topics for information about each of the build
components:

Additional reference topics not related to a specific component:

Try it out

If you are interested in contributing to the Tekton Pipeline project, see the
Tekton Pipeline contribution guide.

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