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Defining new objects

Once you install Tekton Triggers into your cluster, you will have access to three new objects. These objects will then be used to create your triggers and automate your pipeline's final part. The following figure describes the flow that happens when a trigger is started:

Figure 10.2 – Tekton trigger flow

In this section, you will learn more about each of these components.

Trigger templates

A TriggerTemplate is a new primitive that will be available to you once you've installed Tekton Triggers. The main goal of the trigger template is to be a template for the resources that the trigger will create.

Trigger templates are to Tekton triggers what pipelines are to pipeline runs. While the templates don't do any work, they describe what pipeline should be triggered and the parameters to pass to that pipeline.

Parameters for the trigger templates are similarly passed to the object, as is the case with pipelines...

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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