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Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton

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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078214

Pages 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Continuous Integration

Author (1):

Joel Lord

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to CI/CD

2. Chapter 1: A Brief History of CI/CD

3. Chapter 2: A Cloud-Native Approach to CI/CD

4. Section 2: Tekton Building Blocks

5. Chapter 3: Installation and Getting Started

6. Chapter 4: Stepping into Tasks

7. Chapter 5: Jumping into Pipelines

8. Chapter 6: Debugging and Cleaning Up Pipelines and Tasks

9. Chapter 7: Sharing Data with Workspaces

10. Chapter 8: Adding when Expressions

11. Chapter 9: Securing Authentication

12. Section 3: Tekton Triggers

13. Chapter 10: Getting Started with Triggers

14. Chapter 11: Triggering Tekton

15. Section 4: Putting It All Together

16. Chapter 12: Preparing for a New Pipeline

17. Chapter 13: Building a Deployment Pipeline

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring Tekton's building blocks

We are almost ready to get started with some hands-on examples of how to use Tekton, but before we do so, it is crucial to understand the basic building blocks that are used to build Tekton pipelines.

There are not many components that can be used to build pipelines in Tekton, but they can all be parameterized and tweaked to build powerful pipelines. In this section, we will explore all of them and see how they fit together.

Steps, tasks, and pipelines

The components you will be using the most when dealing with Tekton pipelines are steps, tasks, and pipelines. You can see the relationship between each of them in the following diagram:

Figure 2.2 – Steps, tasks, and pipelines (http://tekton.dev/concepts)

To get a better understanding of how they work together, let's look at them individually.

Steps

Steps are the most basic units that you can use to create your pipeline. They represent a single...

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Authors (1)

Joel Lord

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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