Chapter 8

Sometimes, your pipeline will need to execute tasks based on certain conditions. In this chapter, you learned how to use when expressions to add conditional flows to your pipelines. You now have the opportunity to get some experience with this concept here.

Hello Admin

Build a pipeline that will take a username as a parameter. If the username is admin, log the Hello Admin text. For any other username, output a simple Hello message.

Here is a possible solution for the exercise:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: logger
spec:
  params:
    - name: text
      type: string
  steps:
    - name: log
      image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal
      script: |
        DATE=$(date +%d/%m/%Y\ %T)
      &...