Tekton Concepts

Internal

• Tekton
• Tekton Operations

Overview

Tekton is a cloud-native solution for building CI/CD pipelines. It has several components: Tekton Pipelines, Tekton CLI and Tekton Catalog.

Tekton Domain Model

Task

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: hello
spec:
  steps:
    - name: echo
      image: alpine
      script: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "Hello World"

Task Operations

• List tasks

TaskRun

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: hello-task-run
spec:
  taskRef:
    name: hello

TaskRun Operations

• List taskruns
• Display execution log of a taskrun

Pipeline

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: task1
spec:
  steps:
    - name: echo
      image: alpine
      script: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "this is Task 1 output"
---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: task2
spec:
  steps:
    - name: echo
      image: alpine
      script: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "this is Task 2 output"
---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: simple-pipeline
spec:
  tasks:
    - name: task1
      taskRef:
        name: task1
    - name: task2
      runAfter:
        - task1
      taskRef:
        name: task2

PipelineRun

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: PipelineRun
metadata:
  name: simple-pipeline-run
spec:
  pipelineRef:
    name: simple-pipeline

PipelineRun Operations

• List pipelinerun
• Display execution log of a pipelinerun

Tekton Components

Tekton Pipelines

Tekton Pipeline Operations

• Installation