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Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton

You're reading from Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton

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

Digging into TaskRuns

Task runs are the actual executions of the tasks themselves. Tasks are essentially just a template to build task runs. When you use the tkn CLI tool to start a task, it uses that template, binds the parameters and the options, and then starts the execution.

The visualization tools, such as the VS Code extension or Tekton Dashboard, can help get some insights about the task runs, but sometimes, you might need more information.

To see the content of a task run, start by creating one for the groceries Task that you created earlier:

$ tkn task start groceries --showlog 
? Value for param `grocery-items` of type `array`? milk,bread,coffee 
TaskRun started: groceries-run-k24zp 
Waiting for logs to be available... 
 
[grocery-list] Grocery List 
[grocery-list] => milk 
[grocery-list] => bread 
[grocery-list] => coffee

Notice the line that starts with TaskRun started. It should show the name of the task run that was just started. This is a random...

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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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