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Tekton Pipelines

Before Knative 0.8, Knative Build provided the ability to run on-cluster container builds from source. You could write a build that uses Kubernetes-native resources to obtain your source code from a repository, build a container image, then run that image.

As of Knative 0.8, Knative Build has been deprecated in favor of Tekton Pipelines. The Tekton Pipelines project provides Kubernetes resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Inspired by Knative Build, Tekton provides equivalent primitives of Knative Build and some more.

In this part of the tutorial, we'll take a look at how to build and push container images using Tekton Pipelines.

Migrating from Knative Build

If you used Knative Build before, you might wonder how to migrate from Knative Build to Tekton. There's a migration guide with more details.

To recap here, this is the Tekton equivalents for Knative primitives:

Knative Tekton
Build TaskRun
BuildTemplate Task
ClusterBuildTemplate ClusterTask

Additionally, the Tekton Catalog project (https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog) provides a catalog of re-usable tasks, similar to what Knative BuildTemplate repository did before.

Install Tekton Pipelines

You can follow instructions at Installing Tekton Pipelines to install Tekton.

As a recap, this is the command:

kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/pipeline/latest/release.yaml

Check that Tekton pipeline pods are running:

kubectl get pods -n tekton-pipelines

NAME                                           READY   STATUS
tekton-pipelines-controller-55c6b5b9f6-8p749   1/1     Running
tekton-pipelines-webhook-6794d5bcc8-pf5x7      1/1     Running

Test Tekton

In Tekton, you start with defining a Task. Task defines the work that needs to be executed. Let's create a Hello World Task to make sure it is working as expected.

Create a task-helloworld.yaml file:

This is a simple task that will echo hello world. You can have one or more steps that are executed sequentially.

A TaskRun runs the Task you defined. Create a taskrun-helloworld.yaml file:

Create the Task and the TaskRun:

kubectl apply -f task-helloworld.yaml
kubectl apply -f taskrun-helloworld.yaml

Check that both Task and TaskRun are created:

kubectl get tekton-pipelines

NAME                             SUCCEEDED   REASON      STARTTIME   COMPLETIONTIME
taskrun.tekton.dev/hello-world   True        Succeeded   7s          2s

NAME                          AGE
task.tekton.dev/hello-world   13s

You can see the result of TaskRun as follows:

kubectl describe taskrun echo-hello-world-task-run

...
Normal  Succeeded  119s  TaskRun  All Steps have completed executing

You can see that the TaskRun was successful. This confirms that Tekton is installed properly and everything is working. In the next step, we'll design and run the first build.